Overview
- A collection of studies that is the first Handbook in this area
- Encompasses studies from across countries
- Encompasses studies that focus on a wide range of students' age levels, kinds of schools, and academic placement within schools
- Has as its main goal to gather not only students' experiences of school but students' perspectives on or interpretations of those experiences; in other words, to include students' voices and analyses in interpretations of their experiences
- Demonstrates revised and expanded uses of qualitative research methods both to research students' experiences and to represent those experiences in new ways
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Researching Student Experiences in Elementary and Secondary School: An Evolving Field of Study
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How Students Participate in and Make Sense of Life in Classrooms and Schools
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Who Students Are and How They Develop in Classrooms and Schools
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About this book
The International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School brings together in a single volume the groundbreaking work of scholars who have conducted studies of student experiences of school in Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, England, Ghana, Ireland, Pakistan, and the United States. Drawing extensively on students’ interpretations of their experiences in school as expressed in their own words, chapter authors offer insight into how students conceptualize and approach school, understand and address the ongoing social opportunities for and challenges in working with other students and teachers, and the multiple ways in which they shape and contribute to school improvement. The individual chapters are framed by an opening chapter, which provides background on, bases of, and trends in research on students’ experiences of school, and a final chapter, which uses the interpretive framework translation provided to explore how researching students’ experiences of school challenges those involved to translate their qualitative research methods, the terms they evoke to describe and define students’ experiences of schools, and, in fact, themselves as researchers.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School
Editors: Dennis Thiessen, Alison Cook-Sather
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3367-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3366-7Published: 29 January 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0454-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3367-4Published: 03 June 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 892
Topics: Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, Curriculum Studies, Educational Policy and Politics, Early Childhood Education