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Collins, Kathleen M. – Urban Education, 2011
In this article the author draws on the concept of positioning to examine how language is used during one particular fifth-grade writing lesson to construct both the lesson and the participants. The author's analysis of the classroom interactions makes visible how participants colluded to position one student in particular, Larnell, as a "bad, bad…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Perspective Taking, Systems Approach, Theory Practice Relationship