Conference:
ECER 2009
Format:
Symposium Paper
Session Information
14 SES 09, Space and Time: Critical Contexts for Educational Research in Schools and Communities
Symposium
Time:
2009-09-30
10:30-12:00
Room:
JUR, HS 10
Chair:
Catherine Compton-Lilly
Contribution
This paper describes two case studies in which students deviate from expected school chronotopes. Bakhtin uses the term chronotope to reference narrative tropes that occur in literature. In this paper, the author argues that schools employ chronotopic tropes (i.e., promotion and retention, graduation, grade level standards, and text reading levels) that have significance in children’s lives. The collective case study began when the children were in first grade and ended when the children were in high school. Data included interviews with children and parents, fieldnotes, student portfolios, classroom assessments, reading assessments, writing samples, interviews with high school teachers and student-created reflective texts (i.e., photographs, journal entries, drawings, and audio recordings). In both case studies, due to a series of difficulties, participants failed meet to the temporal expectations of school contributing to their failure in school. Both left school at age 17 after being placed in the eighth grade by school officials. This study raises serious questions about the ways time is operationalized in schools and its effects on students.
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