{"product_id":"official-portraits-and-unofficial-counterportraits-of-at-risk-students-9780415871242","title":"Official Portraits and Unofficial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers - children of gang members, drug users, poor people, and non-documented and documented immigrants - in a rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom community and spreading outward. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of this book is the cultivation of tension between official and unofficial portraits of these students. Official portraits are composed of demographic data, socioeconomic data, and test results. Unofficial counterportraits offer different views of children, schools, and communities. The big ideas of official and unofficial portraits are presented, then each chapter offers data (the childrenâs and teachersâ processes and products) and facets of the theoretical construct of counterportraits, as a response to official portraits. The counterportraits are built slowly in order to base them in evidence and to articulate their com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: Writing Spaces and Hard Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: An Introduction to Searching for Our Truths\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the Work Began\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortraits and Counterportraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMesa Vista Elementary School (MVE): The Official Portrait\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinding the School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomelessness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Writers Reveal Themselves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecoming More than an Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Pieces of Writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInitiating Data Analysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeacher as Screamer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrictness, Power, and Microaggressions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrict Schools and the Search for Joy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Counterportrait Up to This Point\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Claiming Spaces to Write\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sixth Graders’ Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinding the Space to Write\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fifth Graders’ Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Biography Assignment Begins to Evolve\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting Spaces and the View of the Child\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounterportraits So Far\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Rewriting Self and Writing About Others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixth Graders’ Non-Biography Biography Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving Towards Increased Sharing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifth Graders Begin Biography Writing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposing Classmates’ Biographies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounterportraits (so far), Context, and the Presentation of Self\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Expanding Writing Spaces as Communities of Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifth Graders Interview, Transcribe, \u0026amp; Write\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome Fifth Graders’ Transcriptions (Excerpts)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in the sixth grade…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommunities, Boundaries, and Counterportraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegitimizing a Context for Counterportraiture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Writing Changes Writers: The Impact of Inertia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood News\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixth Graders Consider Expository Biography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeatured Fifth Grade Writer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking for Hours\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounterportraiture, Working in the Plural Form, \u0026amp; Inertia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Heroes, Dark Secrets, Otter Pops, \u0026amp; Struggles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Fifth Grade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeatured Fifth Grade Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChuck, the Humorist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEstevan’s Hero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixth Grade Poets’ Dark Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixth Graders’ Brief Biographies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Classroom as a \"Site of Struggle\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStruggle and the Use of Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting as Carnival\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarnivals Breed Struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounterportraits, Struggles, Legitimacy, and Possibilities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Writing Places as Hybrid Spaces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixth Graders Get Serious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry in the Biography Genre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHybridized Texts and Contexts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHybridized Spaces and Counterportraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Products, Presentations, and Power \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur First Public Venue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading Their Work in Small Groups\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlam Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Families\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounterportraits and Spheres of Influence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Small Spheres Align…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Suffering, Struggles, and the Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHome Visits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing the Community to the Sixth Grade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriters’ Reflections on the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflections on self-as-writer and Counterportraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflections on Writing and Counterportraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat else, what next, and Counterportraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThank You Notes, Relationships, and Counterportraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritical Literacy, Hope and Counterportraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Writing Spaces for Better Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Purposes of School, the Search for Joy, \u0026amp; the Spirit of the Child\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInner Struggles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage \u0026amp; Identity Struggles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchool as a Site of Struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnowledge\/Power Struggle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgency: Responding to Struggles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgency and Responsibilities in Composing Counterportraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgency and Responsibility, the Bigger Picture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgency and Responsibility in Schools\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgency and Responsibility in Partnerships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChanging the Course of History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Microeducational Economies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: Counterportraiture as Method\/Method as Political Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 2: Full Text of Some Biographies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 3: Storyboard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 4: Editorial Checklist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Children’s Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402154680663,"sku":"9780415871242","price":68.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/official-portraits-and-unofficial-counterportraits-of-at-risk-students-9780415871242","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}