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The following proposal outlines a conceptual framework for an expressive writing project that accommodates and builds on students’ lives and experiences. This framework forms a trajectory (see Figure 1) of potential writings, at once challenging, encouraging, and timely, as well as respectful and attentive to the complex lives of adults and is intended as a […]

Alice used an interesting metaphor, both in this quotation, and in other interviews, to describe the social landscape at the school, using a notion of concentric circles. While discussing each of the 10 students in this study, she located where they might be on a social “map,” in relation to the “center” of the circle, […]

According to his teacher, Alice, and his mother, Pearl, John, out of the 10 student participants, seemed to most resist reading. Alice reported that John was reading “near grade level,” but his mother reported that “getting him to read was like pulling teeth.” In school, largely because she knew John was not reading at home, […]

In Erika’s classroom, however, emotional connections with the historical events were not the only avenue that brought the students into U.S. history. Connections with their own life experiences (and these also may be emotional) enabled the students to understand that their issues were also central to the citizens Cartier Replica Watches of past centuries and […]

The use of various texts increases the possibility that students will engage in rich conceptual information that promotes critical thinking. Luke has written about the importance of the Internet as a means to enable knowledge. It becomes contestable and open to criticism, and teachers play an important role in ensuring this possibility. Rich knowledge bases […]