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Ketter, Jean; Lewis, Cynthia – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2015
This research is an ethnographic case study of a book group focusing on the reading and teaching of multicultural literature in a rural, predominately white, middle school setting. We examine how participants co-constructed teacher identities through the parallel narratives they created about themselves and their students. We discovered that the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Reading Instruction, Literature
Lewis, Cynthia – 1995
An ethnographic study examined the nature of social and cultural contexts as they shaped literary practices in a combined fifth/sixth-grade classroom. Research questions focused on the meanings given to the reading and discussion of literature within the embedded contexts of classroom and community. The five focal students for the study differed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Context