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Title: Making Room for Students: Sharing Teacher Authority in Room 104 by Celia Oyler, D. Jean Clandinin ISBN: 0807735450 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4

Rating: 5
Summary: Concrete and practical for teaching democracy
Comment: A book that helps you see and feel and think about how to empower children in classrooms!! In schools where domination and control are too often the rule, in a society that says it values democracy, we need books and information that provide clear, specific pictures regarding how teachers can create opportunities in real classrooms for student decision-making, power. This book marvelously fulfills this need. The author describes in clear detail what the teacher does, what it means, how her actions entailed sharing of authority and providing explicit opportunities to promote children's learning of responsibility and the exercise of choice, decision-making, and power. The reader sits in the class with her observing and thinking about concrete strategies. This is a valuable book for both teachers and administrators!!

Rating: 3
Summary: Little data & lots of jargon makes this book hard to read!
Comment: This book is based on a classroom in inner city Chicago. The teacher in this classroom changes her teaching methods from the "normal" teacher dictatorship to a kinder gentler approach to teaching and handling her students. They share authority. A good portion of the book concentrates on literacy lessons and how the teacher's new approach embraces a more holistic method. The book is very subjective, there is little hard evidence to see if this approach really works out for the students. Plus, the author was only in the classroom for 22 whole days, hardly enough time to investigate the complexity of a classroom and the students inside. If you want a book that discusses the trials and tribulations of shared authority, then this is the book for you. If not, you might find this book a little difficult to get through.