Syllabi

RES 5535 Spring 2010

Readings
  • Anyon: "Social Class and School Knowledge"
  • Balfanz, Legters, West, & Weber: "Are NCLB's Measures, Incentives, and Improvement Strategies the Right Ones for the Nation's Low-Performing High Schools?"
  • Bryman #1: "Social Science Research Strategies"
  • Bryman #2: "The Nature of Quantitative Research"
  • Bryman #3: "The Nature of Qualitative Research"
  • Carreon, Drake, & Barton: "The Importance of Presence: Immigrant Parents' School Engagement Experiences"
  • Chan (#1): "Student Experiences Of a Culturally-Sensitive Curriculum: Ethnic Identity Development Amid Conflicting Stories To Live By"
  • Chan (#2): "Teacher Experiences Of Culture In the Curriculum"
  • Clarke: “Power Through Voicing Others: Girls’ Positioning of Boys in Literature Circle Discussions”
  • Creswell: "Reviewing the Literature"
  • DeGennaro: “Learning Designs: An Analysis of Youth-Initiated Technology Use”
  • Delpit/Baker: "No Kinda Sense" and "Trilingualism" (combined as one document)
  • Dowdy: "Ovuh Dyuh"
  • Erevelles: "Understanding curriculum as normalizing text: disability studies meet curriculum theory"
  • Guba: "The Alternative Paradigm Dialog"
  • Gore: "What Can WeDo For You! Struggling Over Empowerment in Critical and Feminist Pedagogy"
  • Helfenbein: "Conjuring Curriculum, Conjuring Control: A Reading of Resistance in
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
  • Henry: "Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Examining Voice in a Reading/Writing Program with Adolescent African Carribean Girls"
  • Hinchman: "Why Qualitative Research Continues To Thrive"
  • Honan, Knobel, Baker, & Davies: "Producing Possible Hannahs: Theory and the Subject of Research"
  • Hoover-Dempsey, Bassler, & Brissie: "Explorations in Parent-School Relations"
  • Hubbard & Power: "Questions Evolving: How to Refine a Research Question"
  • Jackson: "Multiple Annies: Feminist Poststructuralism and the Making of a Teacher"
  • Jacobson, Reutzel, & Hollingsworth: "Reading Instruction: Perceptions of Elementary School Principals"
  • Ladson-Billings: "I Ain't Writin' Nuttin': Permissions To Fail and Demands To Succeed In Urban Classrooms"
  • Lee: "Making Sense After a National Disaster"
  • Manfra & Hammond: “Teachers’ Instructional Choices with Student Created Digital Documentaries: Case Studies”
  • Mehra: "Lives in Transition: Stories of Three Foreign Elementary Students from India"
  • Merriam: "Being a Careful Observer"
  • Merriam: "Case Studies as Qualitative Research"
  • Moller & Allen: "Connecting, Resisting, and Searching for Safer Places: Students Respond to Mildred Taylor's The Friendship
  • Neuman: "Experimental Research"
  • Noll: "Experiencing Literacy In and Out of School: Case Studies of Two American Indian Youth"
  • Porat: "Who Fired First? Students’ Construction of Meaning From One Textbook Account of the Israeli–Arab Conflict"
  • Perry: “From storytelling to writing: Transforming literacy practices among Sudanese refugees”
  • Phillips: "Postpositivistic Science - Myths and Realities"
  • Rheinharz: "Feminist Methods in Social Research" (Chapter 13: Conclusions)
  • Sandlin & Milam: “Mixing Pop (Culture) and Politics: Cultural Resistance, Culture Jamming, and Anti-Consumption Activism as Critical Public Pedagogy
  • Schultz & Oyler: "We Make This Road as We Walk Together: Sharing Teacher Authority in a Social Action Curriculum Project
  • Schmid, et al.: “A Human-Computer Partnership: The Tutor/Child/Computer Triangle Promoting the Acquisition of Early Literacy Skills”
  • Self-Brown & Matthews: "Effects of Classroom Structure on Student Achievement Goal Orientation"
  • Smulyan: "Feminist Cases of Nonfeminist Subjects: Case Studies of Women Principals"
  • St. Pierre: "Methodology in the Fold and the Irruption of Transgressive Data"
  • St. Pierre: "Poststructural Feminism in Education: An Overview"
  • Staples, "Hustle & Flow: A critical student and teacher-generated framework for re-authoring a representation of Black masculinity"
  • Stewart, Stewart, & Simons: "The Effect of Neighborhood Context on the College Aspirations of African American Adolescents"
  • Ting: "Predicting Asian Americans' Academic Performance in the First Year of College"
  • Trofanenko: "More Than a Single Best Narrative: Collective History and the Transformation of Historical Consciousness"
  • Tupper & Cappello: "Teaching Treaties as (Un)Usual Narratives: Disrupting the Curricular Commonsense"
  • Quinn: "(Post)modern Teachers’ Constructivist Cosmopolitan Selves Making Sense of Soul"
  • Weenie: "Curricular Theorizing From the Periphery"
  • Zembylas: "Beyond Teacher Cognition and Teacher Beliefs: The Value of the Ethnography of Emotions in Teaching"
  • Zembylas & Vrasidas: "Globalization, information and communication technologies, and the prospect of a 'global village': promises of inclusion or electronic colonization?"