Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation by Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle

Author:Marilyn Cochran-Smith & Susan L. Lytle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2009-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Six

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The “Bad Boy” and the Writing Curriculum

Gary McPhail

Inquiry as Stance, by Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Susan L. Lytle. Copyright © 2009 by Teachers College, Columbia University. All rights reserved. Prior to photocopying items for classroom use, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center, Customer Service, 222 Rosewood Dr., Danvers, MA 01923, USA, tel. (978) 750-8400, www.copyright.com.

Gary McPhail currently teaches first and second grade at Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has taught in the primary grades for 11 years. In 2008, McPhail received his doctorate from Boston College. In an attempt to address the gendered achievement gap in writing that exists both nationally and internationally, McPhail conducted a yearlong teacher research dissertation focused on the gendered literacy interests of his 1st-grade students and how they responded to a writing curriculum he created that included genres intended to be of interest to both boys and girls. Based on his findings, McPhail is currently leading a group of teacher researchers featuring one teacher from every grade level at Shady Hill. This group is inquiring into their own practice and working to create a schoolwide writing curriculum that is of interest to a variety of young, budding writers. His publications include Faculty First: The Challenge of Infusing the Teacher Education Curriculum with Scholarship on English Language Learners (co-authored with J. Costa, J. Smith, and M. E. Brisk).

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