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Peer reviewedKanpol, Barry – Urban Review, 1989
Examines teacher resistance using a naturalistic case study of four eighth grade middle school teachers. Describes and analyzes their resistance to institutional and cultural politics. Concludes that these activities may lead to counterhegemonic possibilities. (FMW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Awareness, Grade 8, Politics of Education
Download full textEastman, Susan T.; Agostino, Donald E. – 1985
This study combines quantitative and ethnographic methods to analyze middle-school students' uses and understandings of microcomputers and videotex. As an experiment in teaching library research skills, 27 eighth graders were assigned to search an online encyclopedia in preparation for writing a science theme. The students' operational practices…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Grade 8, Information Seeking
Hall, Leigh A. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2005
This year-long case study examines how a struggling reader in a sixth-grade social studies class, a seventh grade mathematics class, and an eighth grade science class "transacted" with the reading task demands of her specific classroom. Through regular classroom observations and interviews, the researcher documents how each student responded to…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Social Studies, Science Education, Mathematics Education
