This study investigates children's understanding of school bullying and victimization as represented through drawings, narratives and open-ended qualitative questions. Eighty-two children (8-9-year-olds, n=30, M=8;7; 10-11-year-olds, n=18, M=10;7; and 11-12-year-olds, n=34, M=11;9) from a mainly Euro-Canadian, mid-socioeconomic city in Ontario,…

The life history method, which achieved a prominent position in the Chicago tradition of sociological research in the early 1920s, has been widely adopted for educational inquiries since the 1980s. The power of the life history method in illuminating subjective teacher experiences in social historical contexts has made it "probably the only…

This book is aimed at teachers who feared they do not know how to integrate science with all-important language arts lessons. The message: It isn't just possible to incorporate science into language arts, it also makes a lot of sense. "Linking Science and Literacy" is divided into two kinds of convincing content. In 16 chapters, prominent National…

This study examines the learning of a diverse team of five professional developers as they led or supported a mathematics initiative. Although teachers are typically the focus of learning in professional development, we contend that the learning of professional developers is important and should not be overlooked. We examined our learning as a…

This article traces the way in which a study by a practitioner researcher into the experience of identity is interwoven into everyday practice, and impacts on the future development of the self and how research is framed. I am a woman, a headteacher, a wife, a mother, and this range of identities, together with the labels and the expectations in…

In this paper, the authors--a university social studies professor and two elementary classroom teachers in a metropolitan urban community--share their perspectives, experiences, and commitment to keeping social studies in the curriculum. Specifically, they discuss practices that they have engaged in to navigate the school district's mandated…

Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001. Everyone has a personal story from that day, and many of those personal stories took place in classrooms all across America. The reality of the terrorist attacks is difficult for adults to comprehend, yet it is the job of teachers to help students of…

When asked by a student in a seminar recently if he could remember a perfect day teaching elementary school, the author writes memories of one he distinctly remembers because he gained new insight into teaching on that particular day. After returning to work following the devastating loss of a younger 19 year-old brother in a car crash, he resumed…

In the summer of 1998, this author was appointed Principal at Cooper Elementary, one of 21 elementary schools in the Livonia Public Schools' district, the 5th largest district in the state of Michigan. Like many first-year principals, she was full of fresh ideas, lofty goals and endless enthusiasm to inspire students, staff and parents. Her…

Two articles comprise this publication. In "Beyond the Story-Book Ending: Literature for Young Children About Parental Estrangement and Loss," Megan Matt analyzes over 30 books for young children on the topics of abandonment, estrangement, divorce, and foster care. She observes that this loss might appear as an event within the story or…

Based on the ethnography conducted by Magrini in three midwestern United Methodist congregations, this article examines the development of "ethnographic intertextual voicing," which describes multiple contexts and the ways in which these contexts influence representation of the participants and in turn, create in a community of learning.…

In this study, teachers' narrative descriptions of themselves as learners and teachers of mathematics were used to understand teachers' interpretations and implementations of a reform-oriented mathematics curriculum. Twenty elementary school teachers' mathematics life stories were categorized into six types, based on teachers' descriptions of both…

This article summarizes an interview-based investigation of Puerto Rican circular migrant students (CMSs) between Puerto Rico and the Northeastern United States. The goals of the study were (1) to identify the perceptions of Puerto Rican CMSs related to the reasons for migration (M) and circular migration (CM), and (2) to identify their…

Recently the author was working with a group of elementary bilingual teachers along a remote section of the Texas/Mexico border. She had been asked to facilitate the development of their social studies curriculum for their new dual-language program. She realized that although these teachers had experience working with culturally and linguistically…

Stories illuminate attitudes, beliefs, and pre-dispositions about how mathematics is taught and what kind of mathematics should be taught. The purpose is to bring the idea of using mathematics stories into the open and make the mathematics-story methodologically accessible to mathematics educators and elementary school teachers.