I have pulled out those references that I am sure refer to classrooms as
communities, but I am sure there are many more.
Atwell, N. (1991). Side by side: Essays on teaching to learn. Portsmouth,
NH: Heinemann.
Brown, A. L., & Campione, J. C. (1994). Guided discovery in a community of
learners. In K.McGilly (Ed.), Integrating cognitive theory and classroom
practice: Classroom lessons . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
Cohen, D. K., McLaughlin, M. W., & Talbert, J. E. (Eds.). (1993). Teaching for
understanding: Challenges for policy and practice. San Francisco: Jossey-
Bass.
Gallas, K. (1994). The languages of learning: How children talk, write,
dance, draw, and sing their understanding of the world. New York: Teachers
College Press.
Green, J. L., & Dixon, C. N. (1993). Talking knowledge into being: Discursive
and social practices in classrooms. Linguistics and Education, 5(3-4),
231-239.
Harste, J. (1993). Literacy as curricular conversations about knowledge,
inquiry and morality. In M. R. Ruddell & R. B. Ruddell (Eds.), Theoretical
models and processes of reading (4th ed., ).
Lampert, M., Rittenhouse, P., & Crumbaugh, C. (1996). Agreeing to disagree:
Developing sociable mathematical discourse. In D. R. Olson & N. Torrance
(Eds.), The handbook of education and human development (pp. 731-764).
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
McMahon, S. I., Raphael, T. E., with Goatley, V. J., & Pardo, L. S. (Eds.).
(1997). The Book Club connection: Literacy learning and classroom talk.
New York: Teachers College Press.
Mercer, N. (1995). The guided construction of knowledge. Clevedon UK:
Multilingual Matters.
Palincsar, A. S., Magnusson, S. J., Marano, N., Ford, D., & Brown, N. (in
press). Designing a community of practice: Principles and practices of the
GIsML Community. Teaching and Teacher Education.
Rogoff, B. (1994). Developing understanding of the idea of Communities of
Learners. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 1(4), 209-229.
Scardamalia, M., Bereiter, C., & Lamon, M. (1994). The CSILE project: Trying
to bring the classroom into World 3. In K. McGilley (Ed.), Classroom
lessons: Integrating cognitive theory and classroom practice (pp. 201-
228). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Short, K. G., & Burke, C. L. (1991). Creating curriculum: Teachers and
students as a community of learners. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Wells, G. et al. (1994). Changing schools from within: Creating
communities of inquiry. Toronto: OISE Press: Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Wells, G., & Chang-Wells, G. L. (1992). Constructing knowledge together:
Classrooms as centers of inquiry and literacy. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
Educational Books.
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OISE/University of Toronto
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