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On the Case: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research
reviewed by Ted R. Purington - 2006
 Title: On the Case: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research
Author(s): Anne Haas Dyson & Celia Genishi
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 0807745979, Pages: 148, Year: 2005
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Admonitions to educational scholars to produce more rigorous scientifically-constructed research have proliferated under No Child Left Behind. Although crucial in terms of defining education as a hard-core academic fieldas well as building a better research base in generalalternative and mixed methods are essential to rounding out the human experience involved in all educational activities. Otherwise, imagine if all educational research followed the principles of medical research, a much paralleled cousin. The purpose of medical research is to show what works and what does not work in keeping human beings healthy and alive. It is fairly simple: Either one is alive or one is not. In the field of education, we are still not even sure what it means to be educated (and truly, we may never need to come to consensus on this as long as the conversations persist). Anne Haas Dyson and Celia Genishi write in this framework in... (preview truncated at 150 words.)
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- Ted Purington
Learning Point Associates' Center for Literacy
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TED R. PURINGTON, Ed.D., is an Associate with the Center for Literacy, Learning Point Associates, Naperville, IL. His current projects include adolescent literacy intervention, staff development in adolescent literacy, and social network analysis of teacher collaboration and information transfer between teachers.
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