With Their Help: How community members construct a congruent Third Space in an urban kindergarten classroom |
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Authors: | Cassie F Quigley |
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Institution: | 1. MAT Program, Eugene T. Moore School of Education, Clemson University , Greenville , SC , USA cassieq@clemson.edu |
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Abstract: | Through the use of narrative enquiry, this paper tells the story of how a kindergarten teacher in an all-girls' school incorporates family and community members' involvement to the construction of the congruent Third Space present in the classroom, and the ways the girls respond to this involvement, thereby providing a successful model for other schools in marginalized communities. In this study, the author sought to understand how this teacher and the community members' in this classroom create a congruent Third Space. This research enquiry includes the systematic use of the methodology portraiture with analysis of critical events. The portraits are titled: Mutual Desire for the Girls to Succeed and Community Members' Involvement. This paper moves Third Space theory towards praxis through concrete examples in an urban, kindergarten classroom. |
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Keywords: | Discourse Gender related Qualitative research Diversity Portraiture |
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