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Zoss, Michelle; Smagorinsky, Peter; O'Donnell-Allen, Cindy – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2007
Eisner, Gardner, and others have argued that the arts should be better integrated into the K-12 curriculum. In this study we examine three high school senior boys who, as part of a unit of instruction on identity, each produced a mask through which he artistically expressed his sense of self. Using a sociocultural framework based in the work of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Males, High School Seniors, Art Products
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Bickmore, Steven T.; Smagorinsky, Peter; O'Donnell-Allen, Cindy – English Education, 2005
In this article we report a study of a teacher, Jimmy, making the transition from his university teacher education program to his first job. We explore what we characterize as tensions between traditions in his effort to develop a conception to inform his teaching of high school English. These tensions are rooted in conceptions of teaching that…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, Beginning Teachers, English Instruction