Re: School reform, teachers and LPP

SMAGOR who-is-at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu
Wed, 20 Dec 1995 15:13:12 -0600 (CST)

Phillip, a lot of college composition teachers study their
own classes--College Composition and Communication has reported
a number of these self-studies. I've got an article in press
with English Education of 3 of my master's students who took
a collaborative independent study while doing their theses,
which were action research projects--I studied their teaching
logs and tape recordings of their meetings. So it's really
a study of my students moving away from my teaching, rather
than a study of my own classes. Their discussions include
attention to a set of readings that accompanied their
classroom research, so the study draws on 3 of the 4 categories
of teacher research identified by Cochran-Smith and Lytle:
oral inquiry (their discussions), journals (their logs of
their research, reading, and meetings), and classroom
studies (their analysis of their own teaching). The
journal English Education has published other studies
of professors about their teaching of preservice English
teachers.

Peter Smagorinsky smagor who-is-at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu