Using information gathered from a combined first and second grade classroom over two years, this book explores the students routine actions in school, including their views about different literacy activities, their favorite part of school life, peer culture in both the boys and the girls worlds, issues of gender power, the integration of the teacher s official discourses and the children s unofficial culture, and the kind of school life children wish to have. Focusing on children s voices and perceptions, this book provides insight that will help educators preserve an accurate view of school...

Using information gathered from a combined first and second grade classroom over two years, this book explores the students routine actions in school, including their views about different literacy activities, their favorite part of school life, peer culture in both the boys and the girls worlds, issues of gender power, the integration of the teacher s official discourses and the children s unofficial culture, and the kind of school life children wish to have. Focusing on children s voices and perceptions, this book provides insight that will help educators preserve an accurate view of school...