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  1. Winter 2011


    In this Issue:
    Children’s Need to Know:
    Curiosity 
in Schools
    Susan Engel
    The Work Children Do:
    Unpacking Gendered Conflict in an Elementary Classroom
    Hana Kawai and Emily Taylor
    An Important Part of Me:
    A Dialogue About Difference
    Sofia Lico and Wendy Luttrell
    Acquiring Double Images:
    White Preservice Teachers Locating Themselves in a Raced World
    Barbara Seidl and Stephen Hancock
    Writing to Read:
    A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Writing and Writing Instruction on Reading
    Steve Graham and Michael Hebert

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  2. Feature Article

    Children’s Need to Know
    Curiosity 
in Schools
    Susan Engel
    In this essay, Susan Engel argues that curiosity is both intrinsic to children’s development and unfolds through social interactions. Thus, it should be cultivated in schools, even though it is often almost completely absent from classrooms. Calling on well-established research and more recent studies, Engel argues that interactions between teachers and students can foster or inhibit children’s curiosity. Continue
     
     

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