Inside/Outside

The central concern of Inside/Outside is the assumption that pedagogical knowledge is generated “outside-in”; that is, from the university, to be applied at schools. The first half provides a thoughtful conceptual framework for reading and understanding teacher research, exploring its history, potential, and relationship to university-based research. In the second half, the voices of teacher researchers contrast, engage, and combine as contributors explore the meaning and significance of their approaches and findings. These authors enter into the “national conversation about school reform, teacher professionalism, multicultural curriculum and pedagogy, and language and literacy education.”

Table of Contents

Foreword by Frederick Erickson

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I: Concepts and Contexts for Teacher Research

Chapter 1. Research on Teaching and Teacher Research: The Issues That Divide

Chapter 2. Learning from Teacher Research: A Working Typology

Chapter 3. Teacher Research: A Way of Knowing

Chapter 4. Learning from Teaching: Inquiry Across the Life Span

Chapter 5. Communities for Teacher Research: Fringe or Forefront?

Part I: References

PART II: Teachers on Teaching, Learning, and Schooling

Chapter 6. Journals
   Visiting and Revisiting the Trees, Lynne Yermanock Strieb
   Looking Back: 20 Years of a Teacher's Journal, Mickey Harris
   Journals for Collaboration, Curriculum, and Assessment, Deborah Jumpp and Lynne Yermanock Strieb

Chapter 7. Oral Inquiries
   Descriptive Review of a Child: A Way of Knowing About Teaching and Learning, Rhoda Drucker Kanevsky
   Learning About Learning Diversity, Penny Colgan-Davis

Chapter 8. Classroom and School Studies
   Walking to the Words, Eileen Glickman Feldgus
   Lessons From the Road: What I Learned Through Teacher Research, Patricia Johnston
   Finding Our Way: A Deaf Writer's Journey, Penny A. Starr
   Leaving the Script Behind, Leslie Black, Howard Bousel, Leah Beth Byer, Linda Cimakasky, Deborah Coy, Pamela Freilich, Barbara Hartman, Dimitrios Hilton, Samona Joe, David Lawrence, Maureen Mahoney Hanley, Jeni Snyder, Jan Swenson, Bruce Winklestein
   Stepping In and Stepping Out: The Making of Hindsight, Shelley Baum-Brunner
   Listening to the Voices, Judy Buchanan
   Parents and Teachers as Co-Investigators, Robin Headman
   Great Expectations, Kathleen E. Wunner

Chapter 9. Essays
   Lighting Fires, Shirley P. Brown
   Following the Paper Trail, Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus
   Faith, Love, and Polka Music, Dara Brody, Elizabeth Cornman, Madeleine Rawley Crouse, Larry Greenspun, Janet Klavens, Teresa Donato Miller, Keith Patton, Elizabeth Powers, Majorie Callahan Ritchie, Pamela Rogers, Debra Miller Schefer
   Reading as a Teacher, Robert Fecho
   The Warriors, the Worrier, and the Word, Deidré R. Farmbry
   Doing School Differently, Alisa Belzer
   How My Question Keeps Evolving, Michele Sims
   Rethinking Power, Samona Joe

Part II: References

About the Authors

Author Index

Marilyn Cochran-Smith won the 2018 AERA Division K Legacy Award