TeacherResearcher Partnership: Space of Synergy

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Teacher-Researcher Partnership Space of Synergy

• Deborah S. Duncan, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
• Sandra R. House, M.A., El.Ed.

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Purpose
To present a model for creating a collaborative
research design
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Our Goal

• To share our process
• How participation evolved
• How common ways were expanded
• transformed
• How we confronted concerns hurdles
• How roles and responsibilities changed
• How our collaborative partnership was
• mutually constituted

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Theory

• Sociocultural
• (Chaiklin, 2003 Cole,1996 Lantolf, 2000
  Rogoff, 1995 2003Vygotsky,196719781981198619
  87 Wertsch, 1985 1991 1995)
• Dialogic Perspective (Bakhtin,19811986)
• Development is Cultural in Nature
• (Rogoff, 2003)

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Conceptualization of Learning

• Learning is a process of changing participation
  in practice. It is a process of changing roles
  and responsibilities
• (Rogoff,
  2003)

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Questions

• What is the nature of childrens discourse and
  social interactions in the margins of classroom
  instruction during literacy practice and what
  impact does their discourse have on literacy
  learning?
• Values reflected? Impact on participation?
• How are teacher modeled practices reflected?

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Methodology

• Qualitative
• Child-child discourse
• Without adult presence
• Serve as participant/observer
• Take fieldnotes
• Record Childrens conversations
• Transcribe those conversations
• Code them
• Be aware of emerging patterns

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And on the way to saying "No!" we discovered....

• Commonality
• Commitment
• Collaboration/Partnership

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The notion of a Collaborative Research Design

• Hawkins (2004)
• What Form?
• What would it look like?
• How would it evolve?
• Eventually became known as

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Tuesdays with Sandy

• Individual
• Trust
• Respect Respect
• Mutual Trust

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Meaning Making
Classroom Practices Childs Voice

Research Theory Everyday Empirical Lit.
Cultural Practices
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Meaning Making Process
Childrens Discourse

Sandy
Deb
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Collaboration Breaks Down Barriers

• We have much to learn from one another
• Crossing disciplines expanded access
• Not Less-thanJust Different

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Practice

• The Barometer
• The evidence of Values

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Hybrid (Third) Space
Social Space Space for Learning
(Official/Unofficial) Space of Tension An
Interstice of Difference Constructed through
discourse A Productive Space
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Hybrid (Third) Space
Learning in any context involves and demands
identity shifts (Moje et. al. 2004, p. 68)
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Collaborative Research Partnership
New Social Space New Space of Change Hybrid
Space for Learning Space of Action Space of
Synergy!
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Contact Information Deborah Duncan, Ph.D.,
CCC-SLP duncanslp_at_hotmail.com duncand_at_laramie1.k12
.wy.us Sandra House housesa_at_laramie1.k12.wyo.us
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