This paper addresses the interactional dynamics of one bilingual, two-way immersion classroom where children came from diverse linguistic, cultural, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Based on an ethnographic discourse analytic study of one kindergarten TWI classroom, I analyze interactional data using participant frameworks as the unit of…

This study introduces performative identity as a lens for understanding student participation in discursive classroom routines and potentials for fostering student agency and enhanced learning. We argue that student negotiation of performative identities can facilitate productive transformations of individual and group trajectories. This study…

Perceived student-teacher interpersonal similarity/dissimilarity (homophily/heterophily) was explored as a possible construct for deciphering the determinants of teaching effectiveness and for gauging teaching effectiveness. (MJB)

Reports results of study conducted in suburban school districts to determine relationship existing between perceptions teachers hold of themselves and their patterns of verbal interaction in the classroom. (DS)

The relationship between classroom participation and student self concept is examined. This study tests the degree to which high and low participators differ in perception of (1) their own status with their peers, (2) their academic status, (3) their interest in studying and (4) dimensions of teacher consideration, teacher stress on subject, and…

This research examined the nature of the "self-fulfilling prophecy" by investigating how the gradual accumulation of information and the relationship of the source and content of information may affect teachers' perceptions and ratings of trust, social ability, and academic ability of individual students. The study sought to answer two…

Project Impact is an innovative three year program being carried out in mutual cooperation by the Cleveland Public Schools and the Department of Education at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio with Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III funding. The program seeks to humanize the educational process in the urban schools by…