University of Pennsylvania

 

21st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum

 “Broadening and Deepening Our Ethnographic Scope”

 

 

 

All sessions are held in the Graduate School of Education (GSE) and Stiteler Hall, with the exception of the Keynote Address which will be held in Meyerson Hall.

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd, 2000                 DATA ANALYSIS SESSIONS

 

 

Data Analysis Session I: 9:30 am-11:30 am

Location: GSE C-12

 

Discussants:            Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

                                Jeffrey Shultz, Beaver College

 

“The Effect of a Science Work Experience Program for Teachers on the Classroom Environment:  A Qualitative Evaluation”

Presenter:                Wendy Frazier, Teachers College, Columbia University

                               

“How 6 Females of Central American Descent Understand Science”

Presenter:                Carolyn Parker, University of Maryland

                 

“Soy Yo:  Contextualized Reading and Writing with Puerto Rican Middle-School Students

Presenter:                Melisa Cahnmann, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Portuguese Children at School in London:  An Ethnographic Study of Identity, Integration, and Mother Tongue Development”

Presenter:                Olga Barradas, Goldsmiths College, University of London

 

 

 

Data Analysis Session II: 2:30-4:00 P.M.

Location: GSE C-12

 

Discussants:            Jenny Denyer, Michigan State University

                                Bill Rosenthal, Muhlenberg University

 

“I DON’T NEED TO TAKE THIS COURSE! – OR, DO I?  A Student Perspective on the Value of Freshman Learning Communities”

Presenter:                Barbara Jackson, Indiana University

 

“Exploring Teachers’ Opportunities to Learn Studying the Process of Learning to Engage in Teacher Research”

Presenter:                Cynthia Brock, University of Nevada - Reno

 

“Understanding Teacher Candidates’ Learning to Teach for Understanding”

Presenter:                Loucia D. Constantinou, Michigan State University

 

 

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd, 2000                 SPECIAL SYMPOSIA

 

 

LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY OF EDUCATION:  WHAT IS IT?

 

Linguistic Anthropology Session:  2:30-4:30 

Location: D-9/10

 

Discussant:             Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

 

Convenor::             Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel:                      Sheila Aikman, University of London

                                Anthony Berkeley, University of Michigan

                                Alexandra Jaffe, The University of Southern Mississippi            

                                Kevin O’Connor, Clark University

                                James Collins, SUNY Albany

                                Agnes He, SUNY Stony Brook

                                Betsy Rimes, University of Georgia

 

 

 

 

RESEARCHING MULTILINGUAL LITERACY PRACTICES

 

Multilingual Literacies Session:  4:45-6:45

Location: GSE D-9/10

 

Discussant:             Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

 

Convenors:             Mike Baynham, University of Technology, Sydney

                               

 

“Researching Multilingual Literacy Practices”

Presenter:               Mike Baynham, University of Technology, Sydney

 

 “An Ethnographic View of Multilingual Literacy Practices:  Issues and Principles for Contexts of Teaching and Learning in a Globalizing World”

Presenter:                Kathryn Jones, Lancaster University

               

“Literacy Practices in a Small, Rural Ni-Vanuatu Village”

Presenter:                Helen Lobanga Tamtam, Teachers’ College, Vanuatu

 

“Literacy Practices in a Bilingual Community”

Presenter:               Ken Cruickshank, University of Sydney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd, 2000   A SESSIONS        10:00 am-11:15 am

 

 

URBAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH:  METHODS, PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES, AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

Location: GSE C-34

 

“Skating on Thin Ice:  On the Silencing of Scratch Notes”

Presenter:                David Keiser, University of California, Berkeley

 

“Managing ‘Diversity’ at Special High:  An Ethnographic Case Study of the Social World of an Urban Magnet High School”

Presenter:                Joseph D. Cytrynbaum, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Triangulating Data about Exemplary Urban Teachers with Focus Groups”

Presenters:              Peter McDermott, The Sage Colleges

                                Julia Rothenberg, The Sage Colleges

 

 

 

MORE ON OUR MINDS:  TOWARD BROADER PREPARATION OF EDUCATORS THROUGH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSE IN SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS

Location: GSE D-9/10

 

Discussant:             Susan Goetz-Haver, Bank Street College of Education

 

Panel:                      Linda Levine, Bank Street College of Education

                                Frank Pignatelli, Bank Street College of Education

                                Reeda Toppin, Bank Street College of Education

                                Eileen Wasow, Bank Street College of Education

 

 

LANGUAGE DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION:  POLICIES, PRACTICES & REVITALIZATION

Location: GSE D-11

 

“Examining Reactions to Proposition 227 Through Teachers’ Eyes:  What They See, How They Feel and What They Do”

Presenter:               Sharon H. Ulanoff, California State University

 

“Social Construction of ‘Successful Adjustment’ in Japanese Elementary School”

Presenter:               Hiromi Akiyama, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Language Maintenance and Revitalization In Jakaltengo, Guatemala”

Presenter:               Karla Silvestre, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd, 2000     B SESSIONS        11:30 am-12:45 pm

 

THE ROLE OF AGENCY IN TAKING UP EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Location: GSE C-34

“Imagining the Past and Defining the Present in the Learning of U.S. History”

Presenters:              Khaled Furani, City University of New York Graduate Center

               

 

“Examining Resistance:  A Case Study of Incarcerated Youth”

Presenters:              Judith Chicurel

                                David W. Kritt, College of Staten Island/CUNY

 

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd, 2000    B SESSIONS (cont.)  11:30 am-12:45 pm

 

 

WRITING LIVES, WRITING THE WORLD:  HIGH SCHOOL  YOUTH EXPLORE LITERACY AND IDENTITY

Location:  GSE D-9/10

 

Literacies, Sexual Identities and Safety”

Presenter:                Mollie Blackburn, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Madaz Publishing:  Literacy, Identity, and Classroom Interaction”

Presenter:                Bob Fecho, University of Georgia

 

“Constructing Literate Identities In and Out of School Contexts”

Presenter:                  Katherine Schultz, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

PURSUING EDUCATIONAL REFORM

Location: GSE D-11

 

“Benevolent Patriarchs and ‘Good Parents’:  A Hegemonic Partnership in Early Childhood Reform”

Presenter:               Mary Cornish, University of Arizona

 

“A Tale of Two Charter Schools”

Presenter:                Jacqueline Leonard, Temple University

 

“Profiles of Four Elementary Teachers Involved with School Reform”

Presenter:               Denise McDonald, University of Houston

 

 

 

 

 FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd ,  2000    C SESSIONS           2:30 pm-3:45 pm

 

 

SCHOOL DISCIPLINE REDEFINED:  LINKS BETWEEN JUVENILE COURT AND SCHOOL SYSTEMS

Location: GSE B-26

 

Discussant:             Rodney Hopson, Duquesne University

 

Convenor:               Brian Williams, Emory University

 

“Schools, Violence, and Juvenile Court:  An Overview of Ethnographic Studies and Key Findings”

Presenter:               Carla Monroe, Emory University

 

“From ‘Disruptive Student’ to ‘Juvenile Delinquent’:  Analyzing How and Why Students are Referred from School to Juvenile Court”

Presenter:               Jennifer E. Obidah, Emory University

 

“In the System:  Students Charged with ‘Disrupting Public School’”

Presenter:               Marquita Jackson-Minot, Emory University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd , 2000 C SESSIONS (cont.)  2:30 pm-3:45 pm

 

 

WORLD LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION:  DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Location: GSE C-11

 

“Interculturality and the Emotional Dimension in Foreign Language Learning”

Presenter:               Phyllis Ryan, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

 

“A Case Study of Exploring L2 Communicative Competence in a Study Abroad Context”

Presenter:                Rika Saito, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Teachers’ Instructional Behavior and Classroom Language Environment:  An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Tertiary EFL

Classrooms”

Presenter:                He An E, The Hong Kong Institute of Education

 

               

 

AFRICAN EDUCATION IN THE 21st CENTURY:  CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FIELD

Location: GSE C-34

 

“The Ideology of News-Time Literacy”

Presenter:               Ralph Adendorff, University of Natal

 

“’Today You Can’t Survive Without School’:  Discourses of Education and Development in Botswana”

Presenter:               Jennifer Hays, University of Albany, SUNY

 

“Drumming and Dancing in the Classroom”

Presenter:               Cati Coe, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

ENGAGING IN PARTICIPATORY AND COLLABORATIVE FIELDWORK

Location: GSE C-43

 

Discussant:             Eva Gold, Research for Action

 

“Culture of Learning Collaborative:  Staff of a Research Organization Examine Their Culture and Community of Learning and Take Action For Professional and Personal Growth”

 

Panel:                      Robert Ballenger, Research For Action

                                Rhonda Mordecai-Phillips, Research for Action

                                Guadalupe Rivera, Research for Action

                                Hitomi Yoshida, Research for Action

                               

 

 

 

ARTS AND MUSEUM EDUCATION PROGRAMS AS PEDAGOGICAL RESOURCES

Location: GSE D-11

 

“Negotiating Drama into Urban Elementary Classrooms”

Presenter:                Beth Murray, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

 

“Developing ‘Carnival’ as an Aspect of the Curriculum in Primary Schools and Initial Teacher Training Courses:  Some Issues

Relating to Creativity, Culture and Education in a Modern Multicultural Society”

Presenter:                Celia Burgess-Macey, Goldsmiths College, University of London

 

“Exhibit Development as Self Discovery or Social Critique:  ‘Truth:  Our Untold History’ – A Student Response to Museums”

Presenter:               Therese Quinn, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd , 2000 C SESSIONS (cont.)  2:30 pm-3:45 pm

 

 

 

DIVERSITY:  AN INITIATIVE AT THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY/BROOKLYN CAMPUS

Location: GSE D-44

 

“The Diversity Series at Long Island University”

Presenter:                Margie Rubens, Long Island University

 

“The Diversity Stories:  Confronting Difference with Urban Student Teachers”

Presenter:                Jessica Trubek, Long Island University

 

“Valuing Differences:  Teaching and Learning in Inclusive Classes”

Presenter:                Laurie R. Lehman, Long Island University

 

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd , 2000 D SESSIONS              4:00 pm-5:15 pm

 

EXAMINING THE SOCIAL PRACTICES LINKED TO CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Location: GSE B-26

 

“Understanding Disciplinary Practice”

Presenter:                Regina Smardon, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Everyday Practices of the Marcus Garvey School of Human Rights:  The Case of Discipline”             

Presenter:                Melissa Romanotto, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

“Finding a Framework:  Examining Preservice Methods Course Instruction Related to Classroom Management”

Presenter:                Paul Vellom, The Ohio State University

 

 

EXPLORING CULTURE, COMMUNITY, AND IDENTITY

Location: GSE B-27

 

“Looking Harder at Whiteness:  Collaborative Dialogue and Alternative Practice”

Presenter:                Virginia Lea, Sonoma State University

               

“Too Long in Exile”

Presenter:                Chris Kearney, Goldsmiths College, University of London

 

“Jewish Identity in a Secular Community”

Presenter:                Joan Maya Mazelis, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

SITUATING LEARNING:  THE INFLUENCES OF LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND POLITICS IN MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS

Location:  GSE C-11

 

“Behind the Teachers’ Backs:  Arab and Jewish Students Learning in Each Others’ Company”

Presenter:                Jocelyn A. Glazier, Michigan State University

 

“Educational Moments Outside of Lessons:  Broadening the Ethnographic Scope in a Latino Classroom”

Presenter:                James Mullooly, Teachers College, Columbia University

 

“Negotiating Positioning with Classroom Peers:  Social Interactions of Japanese-Brazilian Students in a Japanese Elementary

School”

Presenter:                Kyoko Morita, University of Pennsylvania

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd , 2000 D SESSIONS (cont.)  4:00 pm-5:15 pm

 

 

IDENTITY, POWER, AND EDUCATION IN DESEGRATED AND POST-APARTHEID CONTEXTS

Location: GSE C-34

 

“Voices of Critique:  Challenging Silences and Conformity at a Post-Desegregated Middle School”

Presenter:                Tricia Niesz, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Evaluation Research in a Rural Adult Learning Project in South Africa and the Cultivation of Dependency Rituals”

Presenters:              Elizabeth Henning, Rand Afrikaans University

                Penny Tyawa, University of Witwatersrand

 

 

 

MULTIPLE LITERACIES:  LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL PRACTICE

Location: GSE C-43

 

“ ‘I Am a Promise.  I Am a Possibility.  I Can Be Anything That I Want to Be’:  How Cambodian Youth Construct What is Possible for Them”

Presenter:                Theresa McGinnis, University of Pennsylvania

 

“The Politics of Progress:  Individual Difference in Literate Development and the Construct of ‘Struggle’ among Urban, African-American Youths”

Presenter:               Kailonnie Dunsmore, Michigan State University

 

“Classroom Emergent Literacy Practices in Post-Colonial Eritria”

Presenter:               Martha Wagar Wright, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

THE IDEOLOGIES OF INCLUSION:  EDUCATING LINGUISTICALLY, CULTURALLY, AND ACADEMICALLY DIVERSE CHILDREN

Location:  GSE D-11

 

“Extremes of Inclusion and Their Moderation”

Presenter:               Kelvin L. Seifert, University of Manitoba

 

“Locating Ideology in Talk and Practice:  Understanding the Over-Referral of African American Students in Special Education
Presenter:               Tamara D. Gathright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

“The Complexities of Learning to Negotiate Difference:  Creating a Non-Linear, 25, Multilayered Text to Represent changing Practice in Inclusive Education”

Presenter:               Elizabeth M. Altieri, Emory & Henry College

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES FOR LOW-INCOME, URBAN CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Location:  GSE D-44

 

“The Role of Reciprocal Teaching Process:  A Study of Two Students in a Remedial Reading Class at a Major University”

Presenter:               Bettina P. Murray, Fordham University

 

“After-School Care as Academic and Social Enrichment for Low-Income Urban Children”

Presenter:               Sarah Kaplan Bogdanow, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Life Skills Training in Adult Literacy”

Presenter:               Susan Eachus, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd , 2000           E SESSIONS 5:30 pm-6:45 pm

 

 

COMPLICATING THREAT AND ENGAGEMENT IN CRITICAL INQUIRY CLASSROOMS

Location: GSE B-26

 

Discussant:             Marsha Pincus, School District of Philadelphia

 

“Threat in Theory”

Presenter:                Mark Faust, University of Georgia

 

“The Threat of Challenge and the Challenge of Threat”

Presenter:                Bob Fecho, University of Georgia

 

“The ‘I’ in Resistance”

Presenter:                George Font, University of Georgia

 

 

 

UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND LEARNING

Location: GSE  B-27

 

“Gender in the Classroom:  A Longitudinal Study of How Gendered Behavior Affects Classroom Interactions in Junior High School”

Presenter:               Maria D. Bonham, University of Michigan-Dearborn

 

“Secondary Education in Benin:  An Examination of Factors Associated with Middle-School Girls’ Drop-Out and Persistence in School”

Presenter:               Sessi S.F. Aboh, SUNY - Buffalo

 

“Strategic Sisterhood in a Latina Sorority”

Presenter:               Carolyn Layzer, Pennsylvania State University

 

 

 

SHAPING THEIR CHILDREN’S EDUCATION:  PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT PRACTICES

Location: GSE C-11

 

“Parent Involvement Perceptions and Practices in East Tampa, Florida”

Presenter:                M. Yvette Baber, University of Memphis

 

“Using the Qualitative Paradigm to Activate the Voices of Parents”

Presenter:                Judith F. Evans, Manhattan College

                                Karen Nicholson, Manhattan College

 

 

 

CONSTRUCTING, RESISTING AND NEGOTIATING RACIAL IDENTITIES IN SCHOOLS:  MAKING SENSE OF SELF AND OTHER

Location:  GSE C-12

 

Discussant:             Tyrone A. Forman, University of Michigan

 

“An Ethnography of Racial and Ethnic Identity Formation among Second-Generation Hmong Adolescents in an Urban High School”

Presenter:                Sylvia Kwon, University of Michigan

               

“Porque Soy Tan Quero:  Phenotype, Ethnic Identity, and Perceptions of Opportunity Among Second Generation Mexican Adolescents”

Presenter:                Edward A. Fergus, University of Michigan

 

“ ‘He’s White to Me’:  Children’s Ascriptions of Racial Identity to Self and Other”

Presenter:               Amanda E. Lewis, University of Michigan

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd , 2000 E SESSIONS (cont.)  5:30 pm-6:45 pm

               

 

 

ATTEMPTS AT CHANGE:  EXPERIENCING EDUCATION REFORM IN A CRITICAL URBAN CONTEXT

Location: GSE C-34

 

“Hope in the Face of Crisis:  Student Life at Northside Neighborhood High School”

Presenter:                James O’Brien, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

“Between Theory and Practice:  The Story of North Side Charter School”

Presenter:                Andrea Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

“The Arts and Urban Schools:  Creative Chaos and Conflicts in an After School Program”

Presenter:               Therese Quinn, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

 

 

ETHNIC IDENTITY IN SCHOOL CONTEXTS:  CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

Location: GSE C-43

 

“Ethnic Identity Maintenance of Caribbean Students Attending Colleges and Universities in the United States”

Presenter:               D. Bruce Campbell, Jr., Drexel University

 

“Remaining and Becoming:  The Ambiguity of Bilingual Education in Northern New Mexico”

Presenter:                Shelley Roberts, University of Illinois

 

“Experiencing Asian American Studies”

Presenter:                Angela Reyes, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

DEVELOPING ACADEMIC LITERACY PRACTICES AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL

Location: GSE D-11

 

 

“ ‘I Thought I Knew How to Study Until I Got to Medical School’:  Exploring the Literacy Practices of First Year Medical Students”

Presenter:               Joan Rushton, University of Pennsylvania

                               

 

“The Interplay of Student ‘Commitments’ and Academic Discourse:  Negotiations of Writing in a First-Year College Writing Course”

Presenter:                Pam Weisenberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

“Writing Your Doctoral Dissertation:  Multiple Perspectives on the Process”

Presenter:                Rita S. Brause, Fordham University

 

 

THE ACTIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS OF FIRST GRADERS REGARDING WRITTEN LANGUAGE:  THE CENTRALITY OF MEDIA/EXTERNAL TOOLS AS ORGANIZING CORES IN EMERGING LITERACY

Location: GSE D-44

 

Discussant:             JoAnn Seaver, University of Pennsylvania

 

Convenor:               Carol Melvin Pate, Chestnut Hill College

 

Panel:                      Carol Melvin Pate, Chestnut Hill College

                                Jennifer Rostick, Norwood-Fontbone Academy

                                Georgia S. McWhinney, Chestnut Hill College   

 

 

BREAK FOR DINNER, PLEASE  PLAN TO ARRIVE AT THE MEYERSON HALL FOR THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS BEFORE 8:15 PM.  MEYERSON B1 WILL OPEN AT 7:45 P.M.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                  

FRIDAY, MARCH 3rd , 2000            KEYNOTE ADDRESS                 8:15 pm     

 

Greeting:                                    , University of Pennsylvania

Introduction:  Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Community Voices of Change”

 

Concha Delgado-Gaitan, University of California at Davis

 

Location:  Meyerson B-1

 

                                                                                                                                                                                               


SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000          MORNING TALK    8:00 am-9:15 am

 

 

 

Susan Noffke, University of Illinois-Urbana

 

Location:  Stiteler B-6

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000  A SESSIONS                  9:30 am-10:45 am

 

 

BECOMING TEACHER RESEARCHERS:  LEARNING ABOUT INTER-ETHNIC COMMUNICATION AMONG TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND PARENTS  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE B-26

 

“Overview and Collaborative Process in an Inter-ethnic Teacher Research Group”

Presenter:               Karen Mitchell, Spencer Foundation/Juneau, AK School District

 

“Watching Veronica: An Alaskan Native Child in Mono- and Multi-Cultural Peer Groups”

Presenter:                Nancy Douglas, Spencer Foundation/Juneau, AK School District

 

“Identifying Minority Gifted Children:  Local and Research Perspectives”

Presenter:                Susan Baxter, Spencer Foundation/Juneau, AK School District

 

“Storytellers:  Two Alaskan Native Children Become Writers”

Presenter:               Kathryn Eddy, Spencer Foundation/Juneau, AK School District

 

 

 

MAKING COMMUNITY PROBLEMATIC:  TEACHER RESEARCH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE B-27

 

Facilitator:              Pata Suyemoto, University of Massachusetts, Boston

 

Convenors:             Susan Lytle, University of Pennsylvania

                                Diane Waff, School District of Philadelphia

 

“Community in a Center for Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Questioning Youth”

Presenter:               Mollie Blackburn, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Community in an Urban Magnet High School”

Presenter:               Marsha Pincus, School District of Philadelphia

 

“Community in an Urban Community College”

Presenter:               Elizabeth Cantafio, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Community in An Ethnically Diverse Neighborhood Elementary School”

Presenter:               Gerald Campano, McKinley Elementary Stockton Unified Districts

 

“Community in a Prison Adult Literacy Classroom”

Presenter:               Lisa Gelzer, Baltimore Public Schools

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000  A SESSIONS (cont.)      9:30 am-10:45 am

 

 

 

COMING TO KNOW THROUGH COMMUNITY AND COLLABORATION:  IMMERSING SECOND GRADERS IN TRADE LITERATURE AND FAMILY AND COMMUNITY LITERACIES

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE C-11

 

Convenor:               Liz Barber, Virginia Tech

 

Panel:                      Valerie Garret and the Interns and Teachers in Grade 2, Roanoke Academy of Math and Science

Stacie Nixon, Fort Lewis Elementary School, Roanoke County

Michelle Sizemore, Burnt Chimney Elementary School, Franklin County

Robyn Skidmore, Morningside Elementary School, Roanoke City

 

                               

 

TAPPING INTERNET RESOURCES

Location:  GSE C-12

 

“Using Ethnography in the Design of Web-Based Instruction”

Presenter:               Thomas Zschocke, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

“Self-Expression:  Literacy in the Internet Classroom”

Presenter:               Rafael Granados, University of California, Berkeley

 

“Online Relationships and Constructivist Learning”

Presenter:               Anne Hird, Rhode Island College

 

 

 

TEACHING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICE-LEARNING:  CASE STUDIES IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Location: GSE C-34

 

 “You Want Me to Teach What?:  Leadership Education in a University Setting”

Presenters:              Amanda Corn, Iowa State University

Presenters:              Cary Trexler, Iowa State University

 

 

 

WHY A CULTURE OF INQUIRY?  PERSPECTIVES FROM SCHOOLS USING PRACTITIONER RESEARCH  TO FOSTER WHOLE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE C-43

 

Panel:                      Sheila Drapiewski, Overbrook Cluster, School District of Philadelphia

                                Pritha Gopalan, Academy for Educational Development

                                Sandy Weinbaum, Academy for Educational Development

                                Frank Wirmusky, Academy for Educational Development

 



 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000  A SESSIONS (cont.)      9:30 am-10:45 am

 

 

 

LEARNING FROM ‘DANGEROUS MINDS’:  AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AS TEACHER EDUCATORS IN URBAN TEACHER EDUCATION  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE D-9/10

 

“Getting to Know You:  Urban Students, Their Lives, Their History, and My Teaching”

Presenter:                Jason Klugman, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Taking Time to Care:  Learning Lessons from Students In Order to Teach in Urban Schools”

Presenter:               Leslie Cohen, West Philadelphia High School

 

“The Soundtrack of My Life:  Autobiography and Urban High School English”

Presenter:               Aimee Ferguson, Benjamin Franklin High School

 

“Teaching Me Science:  African American High School Student Teaching Student Teachers How to Teach”

Presenter:               Gale Seiler, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

COCA-COLA MENTORSHIP GROUP  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE D-11

 

Panel:                      Leif Gustavson, University of Pennsylvania

                                Janine Staples, University of Pennsylvania

Alton Strange, University of Pennsylvania

                               

 

 

 

 

THE PROSPECTIVE TEACHER’S VOICE IN WRITING RESEARCH  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH) 

Location:  GSE D-44

 

 

Discussant:             Janice Showler, The College of New Jersey

 

 

Panel:                    Sharon Curran, The College of New Jersey

                                Jennifer Ferri, The College of New Jersey

                                Jennifer Grodewald, The College of New Jersey

                                Timothy McGee, The College of New Jersey

                                Kate Pitches, The College of New Jersey

                                Colleen Remar, The College of New Jersey

                                Christine Santo, The College of New Jersey

                                Christina Stapleton, The College of New Jersey

 

 

                               

 

JOURNAL ENTRIES INTO TEACHING-ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: Stiteler B-21

 

Discussant:           Paul Skilton-Sylvester, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel:                                                     

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000  A SESSIONS (cont.)      9:30 am-10:45 am

 

 

 

BROADENING AND DEEPENING OUR ETHNOGRAPHIC SCOPE IN BRAZIL

Location:   Stiteler B-26

 

Discussant:             Helena Amaral da Fontoura, Fluminense Federal University

 

“Talking About Ethnography in Brazil and France:  Theory and Method

Presenters:              Carmen Lucia Guimaraes de Mattos, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro               

                                Angela Xavier de Brito, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro

 

“Language and Ethnography:  Cognitive Aspects of Urban Education in Brazil”

Presenter:               Luiz Antonio Gomes Senna, University of Rene Descartes

 

“An Attempt to Exclusion:  Diversity in an Equality of High Ability Children in Brazil”

Presenter:               Marsyl Bulkool Mettrau, State University of Rio de Janeiro

 

“Cognitive Development and the Use of Computers:  Impacts and Contributions of Educational Software in Elementary School”

Presenter:               Raquel Marques Villardi, State University of Rio de Janeiro

 

“How to Become a Teacher with the Help of Ethnography”

Presenter:               Helena Amaral da Fontoura, Fluminense Federal University

 

“Metacognitive Strategies in Computers: A Study in Juvenile Delinquent Schools in Brazil”

Presenters:              Cleonice Puggian, Pontific Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

                                Monica Sena, Pontific Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

                               

 

 

 

THE AESTHETICS OF ETHNOGRAPHY FOR EDUCATION:  INTERPRETING MULTICULTURAL CALENDAR ARTIFACTS AS TEXTS:  AN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

Location:  Stiteler Lounge

 

Discussant:                Julie Mabey, Studio Elementary School, New York City

 

“The Aesthetics of Ethnography for Education:  Interpreting Multicultural Calendar Artifacts as Texts”

Presenter:                  Kathryn De Lawter, Pace University

 

“The Aesthetics of Ethnography for Education:  Collective Reflection Via Video”

Presenter:                  Adrienne Sosin, Pace University

 

“The Aesthetics of Ethnography for Education:  Multicultural Calendar Imagining”

Presenter:                  Julie Mabey, Studio Elementary School, New York City

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000    B SESSIONS          11:00 am-12:15 pm

 

 

CONSTRUCTING TEACHER IDENTITIES:  THE ROLE OF REFLECTION

Location:  GSE B-26

 

“Personal Schooling Narratives and Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions of the Ideal Teacher”

Presenter:               Rebekah D. Kelleher

 

“Learning from ESL, EFL, and Bilingual Teachers’ Autobiographies”

Presenter:               Miguel Lopez, New York University

 

“Combining Graphics, Text and Talk to Understand Teacher Reflection:  A Case of Research as Teaching”

Presenters:              Paul Conway, Cleveland State University

                                Christopher M. Clark, Michigan State University

 

 

TRAINING TEACHERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY:  REFLECTIONS FROM PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS

Location: GSE B-27

 

“Preservice  Teachers’ Perceptions About Low-Income Latino Students Who Are Struggling Readers”

Presenter:                Rachel G. Salas, University of San Francisco

 

“Students’ Self-Representations Both Inside and Outside the Classroom:  Teacher-Education and the Development of Pre-Service Students Through Their Training”

Presenters:              Nicole Carignan, Cleveland State University
                                Michael Sanders, Cleveland State University

 

 

 

ELEMENTARY STUDENTS TELLING STORIES:  CASE STUDIES IN ENGLISH AND SCIENCE

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE C-11

 

“Narrative Practice and Children’s Use of Video in Writing Workshop Stories”

Presenter:                Suellen Gawler Butler, West Chester University

 

“Kids Teaching Kids:  An Ethnographic Study of Children’s Strategies for Presenting in a 5th Grade Science Class”

Presenter:                Jerry Fluellen, Smile for Africa, Inc. Educational Consultants

 

 

 

MULTIPLE WAYS OF KNOWING:  THE SOCIAL PRACTICES LINKED TO MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS

Location:  GSE C-12

 

“Cultural Production of a Mathematician”

Presenter:               Mi-Kyung Ju, University of California, Davis

 

“Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Young Toddlers’ (Age 18 to 22 Months) Mathematical Thinking”

Presenter:               Helene Alpert Furani, Michigan State University

 

“Literature and Computers in Elementary Classrooms:  Reshaping Cultures for Literacy Learning”

Presenter:               Sheri K. Rop, Michigan State University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000    B SESSIONS (cont.)  11:00 am-12:15 pm

 

 

RAISING THE VOICE OF TEACHERS IN EDUCATIONAL POLICY (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)       

Location:  GSE C-34

 

Discussant:                Christopher Clark, Michigan State University

 

Panel:                      Lara Goldstone, Manhattan Academy of Technology

                                Joseph Gottschalk, P.S. 70, Long Island City

                                Ellen Meyers, IMPACT II / NTPI

                                Frances Rust, New York University

                                Matt Wayne, The Riis Upper School for Labor and Social History

                               

 

 

 

SUSTAINING TEACHER INQUIRY:  CONSTRUCTING MEANING AND COMMUNITY

(PRACTIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE C-43

 

“Sustaining Teacher Inquiry in the Bay Area Writing Project”

Presenter:               Sim Chang, University of California, Berkeley

 

“Sustaining Teacher Inquiry in the Jacksonville State University Writing Project”

Presenter:               Deborah Prickett, Jacksonville State University

 

“Sustaining Teacher Inquiry in the Marshall University Writing Project”

Presenter:               Karen McComas, Marshall University

 

“Sustaining Teacher Inquiry in the Maryland Writing Project”

Presenter:               Del Arnold, Maryland Writing Project

 

“Sustaining Teacher Inquiry in the Philadelphia Writing Project”

Presenter:               Susan Browne, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Sustaining Teacher Inquiry in the Southern Nevada Writing Project”

Presenter:               Ruth Devlin, Southern Nevada Writing Project

 

 

 

 
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AS CO-RESEARCHERS IN WEST PHILADELPHIA CLASSROOMS

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

 Location: GSE D-9/10

 

Discussant::            Norman Newberg, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Using Student Research to Inform In-Service Professional Development for High School Teachers”

Presenter:               Matthew Riggan, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Student Voices:  The Missing Link in Teacher Research”

Presenter:               Malik Edwards, University of Pennsylvania

 

“High School Students as Mentors in Pre-Service Teacher Education”

Presenter:               Jeanine Staples, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000    B SESSIONS (cont.)  11:00 am-12:15 pm

 

 

CASE STUDIES OF LEARNING AND TEACHING IN DIVERSE SETTINGS

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE D-11

 

Discussant:             Elaine Howes, Teachers College, Columbia University

 

“Organizing and Facilitating Research Festivals for Teachers”

Presenter:               Emily H. van Zee, University of Maryland

 

“Enhancing Observational Writing by Third Grade Students”

Presenter:               Margaret Crutchfield, Rolling Terrace Elementary School, Montgomery County, Maryland

 

“The Impact and Effects of Inquiry-Based Science  on the Urban Learner”

Presenter:               Michele Green, Piney Branch Elementary School, Montgomery County, Maryland

 

“Engaging Fourth Grade Readers in Science”

Presenter:               Diantha Lay, Judith Resnik Elementary School, Montgomery County, Maryland

 

“Making Math Connections”

Presenter:               Deborah Roberts, Silver Spring International Middle School, Montgomery County, Maryland

 

 

 

JOURNAL ENTRIES INTO TEACHING – SECONDARY EDUCATION   (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE D-44

 

Discussant:                James Larkin, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel:                      Sidney Coffin, University of Pennsylvania,

                                Matthew Corcorran, University of Pennsylvania

                                Derek Kehler, University of Pennsylvania

                                Andrea Miller, University of Pennsylvania

                                Rebecca Peckhem, University of Pennsylvania                          

 

 

 

 

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN SOCIOPOLITICAL DISCOURSES:  FOUR CASES, MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS

Location:  Stiteler B-21

 

Discussant:                Carolyn Layzer, Penn State University

 

“Constructing Ethnic Identities in the Borderlands:  Ethnic Labeling Among New Mexican Middle School Students”

Presenter:                Mariela Nunez-Janes, University of New Mexico

 

“Urban Appalachian Girls:  Writing and Identity”

Presenter:                Tammy Roe, University of Cincinnati

 

“Constructing Ethnic Identity in a Latina Sorority”

Presenter:                Carolyn Layzer, Penn State University

 

“Concealing Difference to Perpetuate the Myth of Homogeneity”

Presenter:                Judy Sharkey, Penn State University              

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000    B SESSIONS (cont.)  11:00 am-12:15 pm

 

 

OUT ON A LIMB:  FIRST FORAYS INTO PRACTITIONER RESEARCH

 (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location Stiteler B-26

 

“Projects as a Major Focus of Teaching and Learning”

Presenter:               Joan Asprakis, Philadelphia Writing Project

 

“Moving Towards Authentic Assessment”

Presenter:               Theresa Hines, Philadelphia Writing Project

 

“Looking Into a Multifaceted Violence Preventing Program”

Presenter:               Lynette Lazarus, Philadelphia Writing Project

 

“What is Alternative Assessment?”

Presenter:               Naeemah Overton-Houston, Philadelphia Writing Project

 

“Engaging Students In Reading”

Presenter:               Tasha Russell, Philadelphia Writing Project

 

“Writing in Literature / History Based Curriculum”

Presenter:               Leslie Ruthkowsky, Philadelphia Writing Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th, 2000   BROWN BAG LUNCH  12:30 pm-1:45 pm

 

Hosted by Susan Noffke, University of Illinois-Urbana

 

Stiteler Lounge

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000  C SESSIONS            2:00 pm-3:15 pm

 

 

WRITING TOGETHER:  TEACHERS, RESEARCHERS, AND STUDENTS TALK ABOUT THE CHALLENGES AND REWARDS OF WORKING TOGETHER

Location: GSE B-26

 

Convenors:             Jeffrey Shultz, Beaver College

                                Alison Cook-Sather, Bryn Mawr College   

                               

 

Panel:                      Diane Brown, STAR/Research for Action

Jody Cohen, Bryn Mawr College

                                Jessye Cohen-Dan, Cheltenham High School

                                Tara Colston, Gratz High School

                                Eva Gold, Research for Action

                                Quentina Judon, La Salle University

                                Ondrea Reisinger, Central Bucks West High School

                                Sharita Stinson, STAR/Research for Action

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000  C SESSIONS (cont.)      2:00 pm-3:15 pm

 

 

INSIDE OUT:  UNCOVERING ISSUES IN URBAN TEACHER LEADERSHIP 

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE B-27

 

Facilitator:              Elizabeth Cantafio, Community College of Philadelphia

 

Convenors:             Jody Cohen, Bryn Mawr College

                                Susan Lytle, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel:                      Carol Merrill, School District of Philadelphia

                                Marsha Pincus, School District of Philadelphia

                                Dina Portnoy, School District of Philadelphia

                                Diane Waff, School District of Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM EVALUATION OF AN N.E.H. FUNDED PROJECT THAT EDUCATES TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO USE TECHNOLOGY TO GATHER ORAL HISTORIES ABOUT APPALACHIAN COAL MINERS

Location: GSE C-11

 

Panel:                      Lynn Bennett, Mount St. Mary’s College

                                Van Dempsey, Mount St. Mary’s College

                                David Falvo, Mount St. Mary’s College

 

 

 

INVESTIGATING SCIENCE EDUCATION

Location: GSE C-12

 

“ ‘Sing Out Louise!’  Students of Education Construct Curriculum”

Presenter:               Jere R. Holman, Ella Cline Shear School of Education

 

“ ‘ Wow!  Now I Understand Why My Students Need to Know This!’”

Presenter:               Marcia K. Fetters, The University of Toledo

 

“Teaching the Periodic Table:  Authentic Chemistry in High School Classrooms?”

Presenter:               Charles Jay Rop, University of Toledo

 

 

 

“ ‘SPECIAL’ EDUCATION:  POLICY, PRACTICE AND SELF PORTRAYAL” 

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE C-34

 

“The Role of the School Principal in Implementing a Pennsylvania State Education Policy Designed to Decrease School Retention and Special Education Placement for Elementary Students”
Presenter:                Cynthia Price-Moriarity, Le Moyne College

 

“Construction of a Learning Identity:  A Study with Students Who Have a Learning Disability”

Presenter:               Denise Marone, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Rounding Up:  An Enrichment Program for Students of All Abilities”      

Presenter:                David S. Mendell, Wallingford Elementary School, Wallingford-Swarthmore School District, Pennsylvania

                               

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000  C SESSIONS (cont.)      2:00 pm-3:15 pm

 

 

THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL JOURNEY:  WHERE DOES IT TAKE US? 

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE C-43

 

Discussant:             Sarah Jewett, University of Pennsylvania

 

“The Inner Journey:  Defining Ourselves as Persons and Professionals”

Presenter:               Diane Lee, University of Maryland Baltimore County

 

“Contexts that Invite Reflection on Self as Teacher:  An Interpretive Inquiry with Education Students Learning about Literacy Acquisition”

Presenter:               Patricia Scully, University of Maryland Baltimore County

 

“An Investigation of My Lived Experience as  Reading Teacher”

Presenter:               Hilary Roberts, Millbrook Elementary School

 

 

 

                               

CULTURALLY RELEVANT LITERATURE AS CONTEXT FOR LITERATURE DISCUSSION GROUPS

Location:  GSE D-9/10

 

Discussant:             Lawrence Sipe, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Culturally Relevant Literature:  Middle School Students Respond to African American Fiction Novels”

Presenter:               Wanda Brooks, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Responding to Culturally Relevant Text In a Community-Based Literary Club”

Presenter:               Susan Browne, University of Pennsylvania

 

“ ‘Nightjohn’ – Venue for Social Change”

Presenter:               Darrel Steward Hoagland

 

“Response of Literature Discussion Groups to Culturally Relevant Children’s Literature in the Kindergarten Classroom”

Presenter:               Teresa Miller, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

EDUCATING WITHIN AND AGAINST:  A CRITICAL LOOK AT EXTERNAL INFLUENCES ON

SCHOOLING  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE D-11

 

“Critical Pedagogy in Increasingly Controlled School Environments:  Is It Possible?”

Presenter:               Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez, University of San Francisco

 

“An Ethnographic Study of a School in Crisis”

Presenter:               Elzette Fritz, Rand Afrikaans University

 

“Creating Models of Success in Alaska Native Education:  An Action Research Project”

Presenter:               Alison Meadow, Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th , 2000  C SESSIONS (cont.)      2:00 pm-3:15 pm

 

 

LEARNING FROM THE EXPERIENCES OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS 

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE D-44

 

“In Our Own Words”

Presenter:               Norman O. Douglass, Chapman University

 

“Making Learning Work in the College Classroom:  Experience and Evaluation”

Presenter:               Maike Philipsen, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

“But That’s Not What They’re Doing in Our Placement Centers!  Perceptions of Student Teachers and Voices from the Field”

Presenter:               Lynn Caruso, York University

 

 

 

YOUNG AND MINORITY STUDENTS’ ENGAGEMENT IN SCHOOL PRACTICES

Location:  Stiteler B-21

 

“Minority Students’ Experiences in Elite Boarding Schools”

Presenter:               Lea C. Williams, Teachers College, Columbia University

 

“Culture, Membership, and Discourse:  A Teacher’s Use of Morning Message to Apprentice All Children into a Learning

Community”

Presenter:               Xiuwen Wu, Michigan State University

 

“Interpreting Student Engagement and Effectiveness:  Ethnographic Profiles Reveal Children’s School Participation”

Presenter:               Galia Siegel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

 

 

INQUIRY INTO INQUIRY:  CO-IMAGINING THE POSSIBILITIES OF CRITICAL LITERACY IN AN URBAN LEARNING COMMUNITY  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  Stiteler B-26

 

Discussant:             Robert Fecho, University of Georgia

 

Convenors:             Shirley Brown, University of Pennsylvania

                                Robert Fecho, University of Georgia                                                

 

“Can I Get a Witness?  What Happens When Issues of Race are Examined Through the Eyes of Teachers and Students?”

Presenter:               Cheryl Joloza, Swathmore-Wallingford School District

 

“Getting Real:  Inquiry in an Urban Classroom”

Presenter:               Geoffrey Winikur, Gratz High School, School District of Philadelphia

 

“Filling in the Gaps:  Writing Workshops and the First Year of Teaching”

Presenter:               Rachel Raverby, Gratz High School, School District of Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th, 2000        D SESSIONS                 3:30 pm -4:45pm

 

 

(MIS)PERCEPTIONS OF RACIAL DIVERSITY:  A LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OTHERS

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE B-26

 

“Schooled in Diversity:  Interviews with African-American Alumni in a Quaker Boarding School over 50 Years”

Presenter:               Pat Macpherson, Westtown School

 

“Encouraging Diversity Through a Role-Model Research Project:  Empowering Students Through Student-Centered Curriculum”

Presenter:               Angela Wiseman, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Education for Understanding ‘Others’:  Media Influence and Japanese Pupils’ Perceptions of Africa”           

Presenter:                Mitsuko Maeda, Osaka University Mitsuko Maeda, Osaka University

 

 

 

 

FOSTERING EFFECTIVE AND CREATIVE PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES

Location: GSE B-27

 

“Teaching In Public”

Presenter:                Jan Nespor, Virginia Tech

                                   

“In Pursuit of Professionalism in Interdisciplinary Classrooms”

Presenters:              Melissa Freeman, SUNY at Albany

                                Sandra Mathison, SUNY at Albany

 

                                                                                               

 

A CLOSER LOOK AT TALK ABOUT WRITING:  A SYMPOSIUM OF PRACTIONER RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE  C-11

 

“Talking With Fifth Graders Writers:  What Difference Does It Make?”

Presenter:                Kelly Campbell, Williamstown Elementary School, Michigan

 

“Whose Text is This Anyway?:  Conflict in Eighth Grade Peer Response Groups”

Presenters:              Jenny Denyer, Michigan State University

                                Debra LaFleur, Williamstown Middle School, Michigan

 

“Ninth Grade ‘Literacy Conversations’:  How Does a Classroom’s Social Organization Encourage Students to Talk Like Readers and Writers”             

Presenter:                Jennifer Ochoa, Everett High School, Lansing, Michigan

 

“Supporting High School Writers and the Demands of the State Mandated Curriculum”

Presenter:               Robin Elliot, Sexton High School

 

 

 

SCIENCE IN THE INTEGRATED CURRICULUM:  TEACHERS’ METHODS OF DISCOVERY-BASED LESSONS FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS

Location: GSE C-12

 

Convenor:               David A. Falvo, Mount Saint Mary’s College

                               

Panel:                      Eric Bethel, Mount Saint Mary’s College

                                Sheila Dorsey, Mount Saint Mary’s College

                                Cheryl Garmong, Mount Saint Mary’s College

                                Michael Hakkarime, Mount Saint Mary’s College                      

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th, 2000                     D SESSIONS (cont.)      3:30 pm-4:45pm

 

 

ACTION ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE PRACTICE OF SCHOOL REFORM:  PERSPECTIVES AND CRITIQUES   (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE C-34

 

Discussant:             Susan R. Katz, University of San Francisco

 

“Enacting Punishment:  Conflict and School Reform”

Presenter:                Gilberto Arriaza, University of California, Berkeley

                               

“Practicing School Reform:  Power and Pedagogy in Organizational Learning”       

Presenter:                Tom Malarkey, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

 

 

URBAN GIRLS RESPOND TO RESEARCH ON URBAN GIRLS

Location: GSE C-43

 

Discussant:             Katherine Schultz, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel:                      Ebony Christmas, Wilmington, Delaware

                                Cyteria Hudson, Dickinson High School, Wilmington, Delaware

                                Yvette Johnson, A.I. Dupont High School, Wilmington, Delaware

                                Lakvana Moore, Skyline Middle School, Wilmington, Delaware

                                               

 

 

I’M FEELIN’ SOME TYPE OF WAY ABOUT THIS:  INQUIRY INTO COMMUNITY AND CULTURE ON SOUTH PHILADELPHIA STREETS IN ONE SOUTH PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL 

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location: GSE  D-9/10

 

Convenor:               Deborah Stern, University of Pennsylvania

                               

“Experiencing the Effects of Violence at a Young Age”

Presenter:               Tracie Dill, YouthBuild Charter School

 

“Asian Gangs in Philadelphia”

Presenters:              Vanna Nuon, YouthBuild Charter School

                                Leang Soeun, YouthBuild Charter School

                               

“Single Motherhood in Three Generations”

Presenter:               Jeannine Martin, YouthBuild Charter School

 

“What Our Lives Are Like”

Presenters:              Mustafa Potter, YouthBuild Charter School

                                Damien James, YouthBuild Charter School    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th, 2000                     D SESSIONS (cont.)      3:30 pm-4:45pm

 

 

FROM TOP-DOWN TO BOTTOM-UP:  INTRODUCING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN AN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE D-11

 

Discussant::            Clifford Hill, Teachers College, Columbia University

 

“The Problem in Its Context”

Presenter:               A.B.K. Kasozi, Islamic University of Uganda

 

“Putting Principles Into Practice”

Presenter:               Kate Parry, Hunter College, CUNY

                               

A Revolution in the Making”

Presenter:               Robinah Kyeyune, Makerere University

 

 

 

 

 ADOLESCENT CULTURE:  CURRICULAR CONNECTIONS AND STRUGGLES FOR NEW TEACHERS   (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE D-44

 

Convenor:               James Larkin, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel:                      Rich Greeney, University of Pennsylvania

Katherine Headman, University of Pennsylvania

Jeremiah Hill, University of Pennsylvania

Michelle Korejko, University of Pennsylvania

Joshua Levy, University of Pennsylvania

                               

 

 

ACTION RESEARCH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-CULTURAL MODELS FOR LEADERSHIP:  THE EXPERIENCES OF AN IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP PROJECT 

Location:  Stiteler  B-21

 

Discussant:             Vachel Miller, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

“Ethnographic Evaluation in Education:  The Current and Future Evaluative Efforts of a Mentoring Project Linking University Students to Immigrant and Refugee Communities”

Presenter:               Michael J. Simsik, University of Massachusetts at Amherst    

 

“Identifying Meaningful Indicators for the Evaluation of a Mentoring Project Linking University Students to Immigrant and Refugee Communities”

Presenter:               Cole Genge, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

“Collective Inquiry:  Newcomer Leaders and Students Learn to Build Community”

Presenter:               Sally Habana-Hafner, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

“Critical Pedagogy at the Core of Collective Inquiry”

Presenter:               Shekhar K. Regmi, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th, 2000                     D SESSIONS (cont.)      3:30 pm-4:45pm

 

 

THE OLD, THE YOUNG, THE COMMON  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  Stiteler B-26

 

Discussant:             Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, National Writing Project

 

“Keeping Teacher Research in the Foreground”

Presenter:               Shirley P. Brown, Philadelphia Writing Project

 

“Keeping Teacher Research in the Foreground”

Presenter:               Susan Browne, Philadelphia Writing Project

 

“Creating Community in Teacher Research”

Presenters:              Ruth Devlin, Southern Nevada Writing Project

                                Marilyn McKinney, Southern Nevada Writing Project

               

                               

 

                                               

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th, 2000                     E SESSIONS                 5:00 pm-6:15 pm

 

 

TEACHER PERSPECTIVE AND STRATEGY IN BILINGUAL EDUCATION  

(PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE B-26

 

“Strategies for Teaching Reading:  An ESL Reading Tutoring Program in an Inner-City High School”

Presenter:                                Maryellen McGovern, Temple University

 

“Transforming Perspectives Towards Bilingual Education After Proposition 227:  Case Studies from a

Teacher Education Course”

Presenter:               Susan Roberta Katz, University of San Francisco

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AMONG TEACHERS:  COLLABORATION AND REFLECTION

Location:  GSE B-27

 

“How Teachers’ Beliefs about Teaching and Learning  Are Reflected in Their Use of Technology:  Case Studies from Four Urban Middle Schools”

Presenter:               Kathleen Phillipps Fulton, University of Maryland

               

“A Case Study of the Effect of a Science Work Experience Program for Teachers on the Classroom Environment:  A Qualitative

Program Evaluation”

Presenter:                Wendy Frazier, Teachers College, Columbia University

                               

“Strategies for Mentor Teacher Learning During a Teacher Candidate’s Internship”

Presenter:               Scott Ashmann, Michigan State University

 

 

 

PREPARING TEACHERS FOR DIVERSITY BY READING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE WITH THEMES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

Location:  GSE C-11

 

Panel:                      Kim Baker, The Sage Colleges

                                Peter C. McDermott, The Sage Colleges

                                Stacey Leftwich, Rowan University

               

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th, 2000  E SESSIONS (cont.)      5:00 pm-6:15 pm

 

 

MULTIPLE WAYS OF KNOWING:  ATHLETICS AND ACADEMICS

Location: GSE C-12

 

“Learning as Embodiment:  Student Athletes on the Court and in the Classroom”

Presenter:                Julie Cheville, Elizabethtown College

 

“When Scholarship Athletes Become Academic Scholars”

Presenters:              Jabari Mahiri, University of California, Berkeley

                                Derek Van Rheenen, University if California, Berkeley               

 

 

TEACHER INQUIRY:  MAKING A DIFFERENCE  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  GSE C-43

 

Discussant:             Delmar Arnold, Maryland Writing Project

 

“Campaign for Kindness:  Teaching Tolerance in a Fourth Grade Classroom”

Presenter:                Tina Collett, William Paca Elementary School, Abingdon, Marlyand

 

“Was It a Three or a Four?  Student Empowerment Through Self-Evaluation”

Presenter:                Wayne Shapiro, North Harford High School, Pylesville, Maryland

 

“Can you Picture this?”

Presenter:                James Ford, Swansfield Elementary School, Columbia Maryland

 

 

 

PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ USE OF MICROETHNOGRAPHIC AND QUALITATIVE METHODS IN BEST PRACTICE AND EXEMPLARY TEACHING RESEARCH

Location:  GSE D-9/10

 

Discussant:             Rebekah D. Kelleher, Wittenberg University

 

“Teacher and Student Stereotypes in  Saved by the Bell

Presenter:                Meghanne Altier, Wittenberg University

 

“An Exemplary Music Teacher:  Past Influences, Present Realities”

Presenter:                Kristen Gleeson, Wittenberg University

 

“My Most Influential Teacher:  Our Past, Her Present, My Future”

Presenter:               Cassie Hogan, Wittenberg University

 

“Are High School English Textbooks Gender Biased?”

Presenter:               Tanya Malackany, Wittenberg University

 

“The Exemplary Teacher / Preservice Teacher Connection”

Presenter:               Jaime Timmons, Wittenberg University

 

 

 


SATURDAY, MARCH 4th, 2000                     E SESSIONS (cont.)      5:00 pm-6:15 pm

 

 

CREATING A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA FROM THE INSIDE:  ACTION RESEARCH BY TEACHERS IN AN ALTERNATIVE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  D-11

 

Presenters:              Janice Bloom, East Side Community High School

                                Lori Chajet, East Side Community High School

 

 

URBAN LITERACIES AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLING  (PRACTITIONER RESEARCH)

Location:  D-44

 

Discussant:             Paul Skilton-Sylvester, University of Pennsylvania

 

Panel:                                     

 

 

MOTHER WIT, SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE, AND OTHER SECRETS OF THE DREAM KEEPERS

Location: Stiteler B-21

 

 Discussant:            Carol Hirshfeld, West Philadelphia Cluster, School District of Philadelphia

 

“Using Ebonics, Taking Risks, and Learning from Your Mistakes”

Presenter:               Deborah Williams, Harrington Elementary School

 

“Using Language and Culture of Puerto Rican Students to Enrich Their Learning”

Presenter:               Teresa Alvarez, Taylor Elementary School

 

“Circular and Integrated Teaching Methods that Support All Students”

Presenter:               Diana Diaz, Taylor Elementary School

 

“An African Culture Focused Approach to School-Wide Thematic Teaching”

Presenter:               Linda Kidd, Harrington Elementary School

 

“Learning from Successful Urban Teachers and Schools”

Presenter:               Jill Sunday Bartoli, Elizabethtown College

 

 

 

                               

SATURDAY, MARCH 4th, 2000                         EVENING TALK                                  6:30 pm

 

“Participatory Action Research in Indigenous Language Revitalization:  A Conversation about Ethnography and Education”

 

Galena S. Dick, Rough Rock Community Schools

Teresa McCarty, University of Arizona

Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

 

Stiteler B-6

 

 

RECEPTION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING                                                                      STITELER LOUNGE