International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Review Board -- About the Contributors -- Researching Student Experiences in Elementary and Secondary School: An Evolving Field of Study -- Section One: How Students Participate in and Make Sense of Life in Classrooms and Schools -- Introduction to Section One -- Naming Student Experiences and Experiencing Student Naming -- Teaching as Research: Puzzling over Words with Fourth Graders -- School Literacy and the Development of a Child Culture: Written Remnants of the "Gusto of Life" -- Dissolving Learning Boundaries: The Doing, Re-doing, and Undoing of School -- "Some Things Are Fair, Some Things Are Not Fair, and Some Things Are Not, NOT Fair": Young Children's Experiences of 'Unfairness' in School -- The Role of Personal Standards in Second Graders' Moral and Academic Engagement -- Mentors for Students in Elementary School: The Promise and Possibilities -- "I've Decided To Change and It's Just Really Hard To, Like, Show the Teachers That" -- Students' Perspectives on Good Teaching: Implications for Adult Reform Behavior -- Section Two: Who Students Are and How They Develop in Classrooms and Schools -- Introduction to Section Two -- "Boys Will Be Boys" ... But In What Ways? Social Class and the Development of Young Boys' Schooling Identities -- Schooling, Normalisation, and Gendered Bodies: Adolescent Boys' and Girls' Experiences of Gender and Schooling -- Differences in Transition: Diverse Students Navigating the First Year of High School -- Building Theories of Their Lives: Youth Engaged in Drama Research -- How Students Learn about Right and Wrong in the First Year of a Pakistani Private School -- Schooling in the Context of Difference: The Challenge of Post-Colonial Education in Ghana -- Ali: Becoming a Student-A Life History -- Portraits of Self and Identity Constructions: Three Chinese Girls' Trilingual Textual Powers -- Finding Their Way: Immigrant and Refugee Students in a Toronto High School -- Section Three: How Students Are Actively Involved in Shaping Their Own Learning Opportunities and in the Improvement of What Happens in Classrooms and Schools -- CIntroduction to Section Three -- Student Voice, Student Engagement, and School Reform -- Stressed-Out Students-SOS: Youth Perspectives on Changing School Climates -- Toward the Pedagogically Engaged School: Listening to Student Voice as a Positive Response to Disengagement and 'Dropping Out'? -- "It's Not About Systems, It's About Relationships": Building a Listening Culture in a Primary School -- Using Students' Voices to Inform and Evaluate Secondary School Reform -- Building Student Voice for School Improvement -- Student Voice in School Reform: From Listening to Leadership -- Clarifying the Purpose of Engaging Students as Researchers -- Making It Real: Engaging Students in Active Citizenship Projects -- Youth Research/Participatory Methods for Reform -- Translating Researchers: Re-imagining the Work of Investigating Students' Experiences in School -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Last Page.