Collaborative Inquiry in a Socially Shared Contextual Frame, Striving Toward Sensible Knowledge Creation on Dance Education

by Teija Löytönen
By using the field of dance education in Finland as an example and by describing the critical incidents that occurred during the collaborative knowledge creation process amongst the participating dance professionals this article sheds light to a more general phenomenon of facilitating the creation of new knowledge in professional contexts, that are characterized by epistemic diversity or specificity.
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Trading Stories: Middle-Class White Women Teachers and the Creation of Collective Narratives About Students and Families in a Diverse Elementary School

by Irene H. Yoon
This article analyzes the way that a teacher community shares stories about students in a racially and socioeconomically diverse elementary school.
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Engaging Youth in School (Kindle Book)

by Gary Natriello
This issue of the Teachers College Record Yearbook focuses on conceptualizations of engagement, the processes of engagement, portraits of engaging learning environments, and whole-school approaches to education.