Carew and Lightfoot 1979

Carew and Lightfoot 1979

Reference
	Carew, Jean, and Sarah Lightfoot. 1979.Beyond bias: Perspectives on classrooms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 0674068823. Location: Dallas Public Library.

Summary
	Reveals the dynamic life of classrooms, focuses primarily on teachers as seen through participant observers, and integrates various perspectives. Aims to create a multifaceted picture of teachers by synthesizing diverse ways of perceiving, recording, and interpreting what they do and say. Methods are eclectic. Combines quantitative observations of interactions between teachers and children with qualitative in-depth, thematic interviews with teachers (as insiders) over the course of a school year.
	Addresses questions as to how teachers determine which children need special help, encouragement, or reprimand. Also addresses what evidence of discrimination may be shown toward groups of children on the basis of race, sex, or social class. Authors studied four first-grade classrooms in two public elementary schools in the same city.

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Bibliography module: Carew and Lightfoot 1979
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