Margaret A Gallego

Biographic Data

ID337945
NAMEMargaret A Gallego
GIVEN NAMESMargaret A
FAMILY NAMEGallego
SIGNATUREGALLEGO M A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California San Diego
ORCID0000-0003-2526-6027
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX2

  • A Message From the New Aerj/SIA Editors

    Open AccessSandra Hollingsworth, Margaret A GallegoARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…2006Cited by: 2

  • Is Experience the Best Teacher: The Potential of Coupling Classroom and Community-Based Field Experiences

    Open AccessMargaret A GallegoARTICLEJournal of Teacher Education2001Cited by: 8References: 20

    Dewey argued that personal experiences in schools are critical to the education of teachers; however, he also argued that all experiences are not necessarily educative. This study examines the potential of a novel approach to providing prospective teachers with experiences with children. This article describes the benefits of teacher education students' participation in concurrent field placements, one in the conventional classroom setting and th…

  • Innovations in Learning: New Environments for Education (Book)

    Margaret A GallegoARTICLEMind Culture and Activity1998References: 3

  • Toward a Collaborative Praxis of Multiple Literacies

    Sandra Hollingsworth, Margaret A Gallego et al.ARTICLECurriculum Inquiry1996Cited by: 2References: 11

    Margie (Margaret Gallego) and I (Sam-or Sandra Hollingsworth) are collaborative colleagues and good friends. Margie is a Latina woman who, brought up in mainstream schools in Arizona, was surprised to discover that she had a special gift for Spanish discourse in high school. I am a Caucasian woman, born in the South and raised in part in Europe, who was surprised to discover a special attraction to feminist discourse as a new professor at the Uni…

  • Beyond Technology's Promise: An Examination of Children's Educational Computing at Home (Book)

    Margaret A GallegoARTICLEMind Culture and Activity1996References: 5

  • Integrative Social Studies for Urban Middle Schools: A Case for Multiple Literacies

    Sandra Hollingsworth, Margaret A Gallego et al.ARTICLETheory & Research in Social…1995References: 12

    In this article the authors argue that the integration of mainstream, standard or “school” literacy into social studies instruction is necessary to ensure that students in urban middle school classrooms learn social studies content. Then the authors ask even more from social educators—arguing for social studies instruction from perspectives of feminist praxis that include multiple literacies—or standard, community, and personal literacies—to vali…

  • A computer-oriented after-school activity: Children's learning in the fifth Dimension and La clase Mágica

    Open AccessMiriam W Schustack, Catherine King et al.ARTICLENew Directions for Child and…1994

    This chapter shows how a multisite, community-based computer-oriented after-school program facilitated the development of bilingual and computer literacy skills as well as other school-related skills among diverse groups of adolescents

  • Integration of Internal Concepts and External Factors: Extending the Knowledge of Learning Disabled Adolescents

    Open AccessElba I Reyes, Margaret A Gallego et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Early Adolescence1989References: 2

    An individual's development of concepts to represent situations or events in memory is contingent upon the relevancy of new information to the individual's existing concepts. Learning disabled (LD) adolescents have been characterized as not having the ability to effectively recall existing (internal) concepts and relate those concepts to new information. Comparisons were made among three interactive instructional strategies and a teacher-directed…