The Teacher as Gatherer: A Review of Priya Parker's Art of Gathering (original) (raw)

Purpose-This paper aims to examine a school-based Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project on educational inequity and high stakes testing. Design/methodology/approach-A former high school teacher (currently a university professor) and two former students (currently research assistants and university students) take up a youth studies framework to collaboratively resee multimodal artifacts from a tenth-grade course in qualitative research. Findings-Findings illustrate the power of finding allies in peers and educators; the transformative power of deep participation; and the longitudinal nature of social change and action. Thus, this research demonstrates that when students are positioned as researchers, experts and knowledge producers, they can collaborate with one another, teachers and administrators to confront social inequities within their schools and beyond. Originality/value-This study has value for applying critical, youth-centered pedagogies in secondary English language arts classrooms and schools.

Two high school teachers examine classroom moments that position youth as cosmopolitan intellectuals and invested community members as opposed to disengaged and disaffected adolescents.

As a classroom researcher, Tiffany DeJaynes revisited the curriculum of an English elective she helped design and found students using artifacts to investigate personal identity and create community.

Thesis (Ed.D.) – Indiana University, School of Education, 2020The purpose of this practitioner inquiry study was to learn from students as they shared their life experiences, drawing from their stories to develop curriculum and instruction in an emergent bilingual classroom. The project argues that when relationships are prioritized with diverse students using a pedagogy of acompañamiento (Sepulveda, 2011), classrooms become spaces where students can share family stories, life experiences, and funds of knowledge - that is, the cultural, community, or life experiences that students possess (Moll et al., 1992; Gonzalez et al., 2005). This study focused on the stories of two high school emergent bilinguals that then were used to develop a culturally responsive framework. In phase one of the study, Nour’s digital immigration story focused on her father’s journey to America while a classmate created a presentation about Rabia’s personal immigration story. In phase two, Ali created two st...

In this ethnographic study of student discipline in California, I examine the spatial arrangements of the disproportionate discipline, surveillance, and banishment of Latino boys who were constructed as gang members from school and community spaces. Drawing on socio-cultural geographical theories, I argue that negative discourses, and implicit bias, together with increased surveillance in school and public space(s) contributed to the disproportionate discipline of Latino male students.

This paper is the Introduction to a new edited collection called "A New Literacies Reader" (Peter Lang 2013, edited by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel. It surveys the emergence of new literacies as a focus for academic research and publication and overviews the chapters that comprise the body of the book.