Writing and Painting Our Lives into Being: School, Home, and the Larger Community as Transformative Spaces for Learning

Autor/in	Cordova, Ralph A., Jr.
Titel	Writing and Painting Our Lives into Being: School, Home, and the Larger Community as Transformative Spaces for Learning
Quelle	In: Language Arts, 86 (2008) 1, S.18-27 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-9170
Schlagwörter	Grade 3; Cultural Background; Teaching Methods; Models; Grade 2; Public Schools; Painting (Visual Arts); Art Appreciation; Teacher Student Relationship; Teacher Attitudes; Student Attitudes; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Analogiemodell; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Malerei; Kunstverständnis; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Kalifornien
Abstract	Narrated by a "researcher"-teacher, drawing from an interactional ethnographic and sociolinguistics perspective, he re-examines his previous teaching practices as a teacher-researcher in order to build a conceptual model for communities-based learning. This article reveals the discursive ways that linguistically and culturally diverse second and third graders, and their teacher, learned to navigate the complex social spaces within their classroom and into the larger community as interdisciplinary literacy learners of reading, writing, art and science. The students, in a public school in South Coastal California, navigated cultural landscapes of school and the larger community as "texts to be read". The space where their social worlds overlap is conceived of a place for struggling with complex ideas where change can happen and all emerge transformed. Students became young members of disciplines by learning from each other and learning from California landscape painter, centenarian Ray Strong and other accomplished artists. Students learned to view ordinary life and places as locations to learn from the people who make these places spaces for learning. (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10