Kornfeld, Johnhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/4962024-03-29T11:23:42Z2024-03-29T11:23:42ZCaught in the Current: A Self-Study of State-Mandated Compliance in a Teacher Education ProgramKornfeld, JohnGrady, KarenMarker, Perry M.Ruddell, Martha Rapphttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/14052014-11-14T17:39:55Z2007-08-01T00:00:00ZCaught in the Current: A Self-Study of State-Mandated Compliance in a Teacher Education Program
Kornfeld, John; Grady, Karen; Marker, Perry M.; Ruddell, Martha Rapp
This qualitative self-study examines the impact of California’s state-mandated revision of teacher education programs on a department’s—and individual faculty members’—approach to teacher education. In spite of claims by respondents that this process had little impact on their approach to teaching, the authors’ analysis of interview and conversational data and documents suggests otherwise. Faculty members’ increased use of technocratic language and terminology reflecting compliance with the new state standards reveals a substantive shift in the ways they think about what they do.
2007-08-01T00:00:00ZFraming the Conversation: Social Studies Education and the Neoconservative AgendaKornfeld, Johnhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/5032013-06-28T21:33:52Z2005-01-01T00:00:00ZFraming the Conversation: Social Studies Education and the Neoconservative Agenda
Kornfeld, John
This article analyzes the tactics used by the Neoconservatives in the book Where Did Social Studies Go Wrong? (WDSSGW) to influence the reform of social studies education in the U.S. The editors of WDSSGW attribute the demise of social studies in the country to what they call as superficial issues, such as peace studies, gender equity issues and multiculturalism. How can the editors call these issues superficial? Although minimal, the educators have managed to made some inroads in schools and classrooms. By using the book, the Neoconservatives are planning to attack the U.S. social studies education. In the book, they have used labels and accusations, such as intellectual elite, ignorant activists and antipatriotic, which they have used many times before. And each evokes unflattering images that are emblazoned on the citizenry's collective consciousness.
2005-01-01T00:00:00ZEnvisioning Possibility: Schooling and Student Agency in Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureKornfeld, JohnProthro, L.http://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/4972013-09-11T15:59:38Z2005-01-01T00:00:00ZEnvisioning Possibility: Schooling and Student Agency in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Kornfeld, John; Prothro, L.
This article provides a rationale for using literature in the classroom to explore
conceptions of curriculum and teaching. We discuss a number of exemplars from
children’s and young adult fiction, both mainstream and less well known; offer a
taxonomy for categorizing the range of visions of curriculum and teaching in the
literature; and describe the responses of a group of middle school students to a unit that
examined schooling in literature. We argue that reading literature which addresses
student experiences in school can help students make sense of those experiences and,
more importantly, open their minds to ideas about teaching and schooling that they
otherwise might never have considered.
Paper originally presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. and subsequently published by Springer Verlag in Children's Literature in Education.
2005-01-01T00:00:00ZActing Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting with History.Kornfeld, JohnLeyden, Georgiahttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/7742013-06-28T21:33:55Z2005-01-01T00:00:00ZActing Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting with History.
Kornfeld, John; Leyden, Georgia
This article focuses on using drama in student learning. For many young students, eras and events of the past seem totally unrelated to their lives. But by acting out those stories, students can get intensely involved in history while seeing how their lives in the present are connected to issues and concerns of the past. Integrating literature, drama and history was no small undertaking but it benefited students in innumerable ways.
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