Yes, that was something like the research plan I had in mind but,
unfortunately, I don't think I have either the energy or the
organizational skills to carry it out. Maggie Lampert's research in her
grade 5 math classroom comes quite close to doing this _within_ the
classroom, I understand, and the database she and her colleagues created
is currently being used for presrvice and inservice teacher education.
Gordon Wells, gwells who-is-at oise.on.ca
OISE, Toronto.
On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Judy
Diamondstone wrote:
> Gordon, thanks for the zoom lens metaphor. I wonder if the camera
> you imagine might be approximated by enlisting students & teacher
> from a target classroom in ethnography on their own home & community
> literacy practices & enlisting a bunch of graduate students in
> videotaping different aspects of the classroom, with everyone keeping
> reflective journals during data gathering to establish who chooses to
> focus on what & why that... to keep a record of presumably changing
> researcher influences.... School and school district documents would
> help to establish institutional constraints.... Inasmuch as the curriculum
> is genre-specific, I would add existing research literature on relevant
> practices; David Russell & Chuck Bazerman and other students of genre could
> devise a sharper mapping of the sites to focus on at different time depths....
>
> Could you send me the results of your study? -:)
>
> - Judy
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> Judy Diamondstone
> Graduate School of Education
> Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
> 10 Seminary Place
> New Brunswick, NJ 08903
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> diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
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