Place Stories: Time, Space and Literacy in Two Classrooms (Margaret Sheehy)
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-57273-906-2 Price:$23.95 Title: Place Stories Sub-title: Time, Space and Literacy in Two Classrooms Author(s): Margaret Sheehy Publish Date: December 2009 Pages: 182 Format: Paper
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School change is often treated a-historically: curricula get audited, new curricula get mapped, and new pedagogies are to be taken up by teachers. These practices, though necessary, sometimes fail because history (past practice) is not seen as having staying power. but history does have staying power. This book examines social practices of two classrooms to learn how the two places have and exert that power. Examining school literacy practices within the framework of "place" reveals how the social process of a place both enable and prohibit school change. School change agents, charged with bringing new imaginations to be place, will find this book a useful reference. It asks that one examine the significance of daily practices and work with teachers, administrators, community members and students, in the place where they stand, to produce a new imagination out of the one currently operating--and operating powerfully--for them. Contents: Foreword, Rob Tierney. INTRODUCTION: TOPOLOGY. What is Topology? Demarcating the Boundaries of "Place". Lefebvre's Theory of Space and Foucault's Spatial Ordering of Discourse. Section Overviews. DESTABILIZING SPACE. Jade and Sanders Middle School. Sanders Middle School: A Site of Citations. Un/Making Place: Interrupting Time/Space Rhythm. Claiming Space. STABILIZING SPACE: A DYSTOPIA. My Place in a New Place. Social Literacies. Dialectical Research. Dystopia. The Question of Bridges. SPACE IN CLASSROOM RESEARCH. Reflections on Topology. The Revelance of Spatial Theory to Classroom Studies. Appendix. References. Author/Subject Index.