This book focuses directly on student empowerment through meaningful research. It fills a significant gap in educational literature by making explicitly the relationship between teaching method, classroom practice, and the production of knowledge. Drawing on the best of theoretical innovations over the last decade, "Students as Researchers "places them in a living accessible context. With a sound basis in theory, the book is also extremely practical and accessible for students, giving scenarios and examples that can be used to reveal the workings and benefits of research.

Part One: Theoretically Grounding Student Research, Chapter 1. Students as Researchers: Critical Visions, Emancipatory Insights, Chapter 2. Reclaiming Wonder: Young Students as Researchers, Chapter 3. Nurturing Critical Dispositions in the Classroom, Chapter 4. Interpretive Inquiry as Student Research, Part Two: Pedagogy and Student Research, Chapter 5. Writing and Passing Notes: Resistance, Identity and Pleasure in the Lives of Teenage Girls, Chapter 6. Mentoring Authorship in the Elementary School Classroom Through the Writing Process, Chapter 7. Negotiating Place: The Importance of Children¿s Realities, Chapter 8. Using Dramaturgy in Educational Research, Chapter 9. Romancing the Curriculum with Student Research: Recreating Kent State, Chapter 10. Creating North, Chapter 11. Engaging Students as Researchers: Researching and Teaching Thanksgiving in the Elementary Classroom, Chapter 12. Social Studies Teaching and Learning: A Descriptive Analysis of Concept Mapping, Chapter 13. Getting Beyond the Limits in Social Studies: Reconceptualizing the Methods Class, Chapter 14. Action Experiments: Are Students Learning Physical Science?, Chapter 15. Exploring Critical Distance in Science Education: Students Researching the Implications of Technological Embeddedness, Part Three: Conclusion, Chapter 16. Making Meaning and Analyzing Experience ¿ Student Researchers as Transformative Agents, List of Contributors, Index