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Tables of Contents for Teaching Cultures
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Series Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Why Teaching Cultures Matters
xi
Cultural Knowledge for Teaching
1
16
Why Study Knowledge for Teaching?
2
3
What Do Teachers Know?
5
7
How to Make Cultural Knowledge Visible
12
2
Overview
14
2
Notes
16
1
National Cultures and Teaching Cultures
17
22
Who knows What?
17
4
Professional Culture and National Culture
21
6
Multiple Cultures for Teaching
27
10
Notes
37
2
Schools and Teachers in France
39
18
The French School System
39
7
Elementary Teachers and Their Training
46
7
Summary
53
1
Notes
54
3
Classroom Cultures, National and Transnational
57
34
National Classroom Cultures
58
14
Values Claimed in Common Across National Boundaries
72
12
Conclusion
84
2
Notes
86
5
Teacher's Professional Knowledge
91
26
Professional Knowledge: What Teachers Know That Lay People Don't
92
14
National Professional Knowledge
106
4
What the Comparative Study Has Shown
110
4
Notes
114
3
Reading Lessons in Villefleurie
117
24
Inside Classrooms: The Diversity of Practice
118
6
Principles for Running a Reading Lesson
124
7
Some Sources of Common Principles for Practice
131
4
Cultural Knowledge and Individual Creativity
135
3
Conclusion
138
1
Notes
139
2
A National ``Schedule'' for Reading Instruction
141
26
A Common Schedule
143
14
Sources of the Schedule
157
8
Notes
165
2
Assessing Student Progress
167
32
Evaluating Academic ``Progress''
172
14
Other Classroom Behaviors
186
5
Sources of the Teachers' Criteria for Success
191
4
Notes
195
4
Explaining ``Falling Behind''
199
30
Common Explanations
201
14
Surprises
215
2
Explaining the Explanations
217
10
Notes
227
2
Teaching Different Students Differently
229
26
To Group or Not to Group-and If So, When and How
230
11
Strategies within Whole-class Instruction
241
4
Retention and Other Year-end Strategies
245
5
Two Different Ways to Fall Behind
250
3
Notes
253
2
Knowledge Shapes Practice, Practice Shapes Knowledge
255
28
What Do Teachers Know?
256
1
Who Knows What?
257
6
Cultural Materials at Hand
263
3
Institutional Arrangements
266
8
Lessons and Questions
274
7
Notes
281
2
Appendix I: The Research
283
14
Ethnography in Villefleurie
283
3
The Comparative Study
286
8
Caveats
294
3
Appendix II: First-Grade Observed in Villefleurie
297
4
References
301
20
Author Index
321
6
Subject Index
327