Teachers and the Reform of Elementary Science : Stories of Conversation and Personal Process

, by Barker, Heidi Bulmahn

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ISBN: 9781593111021 | 1593111029
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/1/2004

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Acknowledgments

vii

1. INTRODUCTION

(26)

Introduction: One Curriculum, Two Classrooms

(3)

My Own Background and Experience with Reform: A Lens for this Project

(2)

Teacher Thinking: A Review of Some Related Literature

(3)

School Change: Some Related Literature

(1)

Thinking About Changes

(2)

My Role and Research "Methods"

(2)

Stories as Research: Using Narrative in Teacher Research

(13)

2. THE RESEARCH CONTEXT: BALMORAL, REFORM, AND STANDARDIZED TESTS

(24)

Have We Learned the Things to Pass the Test?

(2)

A Unique Community: The Research Site

(6)

Conversations About Reform and Conversations About Standards: Creating Tension

(13)

No Time for Wondering

(3)

3. RELATIONSHIPS

(20)

Making Space for Reform/Change or Taking Space from Reform/Change

(1)

Protecting a Collaborative Relationship

(1)

Collaborating with Each Other

(3)

Is What We're Doing Consistent with What We Believe?

(3)

Collaborating Toward Change

(5)

Process and Product in Teaching and Learning: Relationships with the Children and Relationships with the Curriculum

(1)

Tensions of Teaching: Implicit and Explicit Science

(2)

Concluding Notes

(4)

4. STRUCTURAL SUPPORTS

(18)

A Story About "Stuff"

(3)

Structural Supports

(11)

Supporting Teachers: A Personal Process Amidst Group Change

(4)

5. COLLABORATION AND OWNERSHIP

(18)

What is Collaboration': Product and Process

(5)

Collaborative Spaces: Lingering Questions

(2)

Imposing a Curriculum

(5)

Gail's Story: Ownership oldie Planning and Teaching

101

(2)

Sandy's Story: Already Owning the Ideas of Reform

103

(1)

Liz's Story: Taking Ownership by Doing

104

(1)

Women's Ways of Knowing: Teachers Finding Ownership

105

(2)

6. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN: CONCRETE AND CONCEPTUAL SPACES

107

(14)

Jennie's Story (Part 1): A Room of One's Own

107

(2)

Teachers as Space Makers

109

(1)

Alice's Story: Creating a Space of Her Own

109

(3)

David's Story: Conversation for Making His Own Understanding

112

(3)

Jennie's Story (Part 2): A Comfort Zone

115

(1)

Questioning the Process

116

(1)

Individual Spaces

117

(4)

7. NEGOTIATING A SPACE TO TEACH SCIENCE

121

(16)

Individuality Within the Context of Community

122

(4)

Imposed Changes and Teachers' Own Practice

126

(1)

Change as a Process, Not a Location

127

(2)

Laura's Story: A Process of Change

129

(5)

Learning Communities and Personal Reform Experience

134

(3)

REFERENCES

137

(4)

INDEX

141

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