Students as researchers : creating classrooms that matter / edited by Shirley R. Steinberg and Joe L. Kincheloe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Students as researchers: critical visions, emancipatory insights / Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg -- Reclaiming wonder: young students as researchers / Kathleen S. Berry -- Nurturing critical dispositions in the classroom / Patricia H. Hinchey -- Interpretive inquiry as student research / Julia Ellis -- Writing and passing notes: resistance, identity and pleasure in the lives of teenage girls / Sandra Spickard Prettyman -- Mentoring authorship in the elementary school classroom through the writing process / Nina Zaragoza -- Negotiating place: the importance of children's realities / Melissa A. Butler -- Using dramaturgy in educational research / Ellen Swartz -- Romancing the curriculum with student research: recreating Kent State / Shirley R. Steinberg -- Creating north / Lana Krievis -- Engaging students as researchers: researching and teaching Thanksgiving in the elementary classroom / Leila Villaverde and Joe L. Kincheloe Social studies teaching and learning: a descriptive analysis of concept mapping / Nancy Fichtman Dana -- Getting beyond the limits in social studies: reconceptualizing the methods class / Joe L. Kincheloe -- Action experiments: are students learning physical science? / Penny J. Gilmer and Paulette Alli -- Exploring critical distance in science education: students researching the implications of technological embeddedness / J. Damian Kellogg -- Making meaning and analyzing experience: student researchers as transformative agents / Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg.

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This text directly focuses on student empowerment through meaningful research. It makes explicit the relationship between teaching method, classroom practice, and the production of knowledge.