Bob Fecho
Biographic Data
| ID | 378585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bob Fecho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bob |
| FAMILY NAME | Fecho |
| SIGNATURE | FECHO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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Embracing Wobble
Contemporary school contexts present challenges for novice teachers seeking to support students’ literacy development by bringing content into dialogue with students’ lives. These challenges, framed as wobble moments, often contribute to high rates of teacher attrition. However, dialogue with peers, colleagues, and mentors can help teachers learn from the tensions they encounter as they enact dialogic literacy instruction. The authors share the s…
Embracing tension
In this article we introduce tension as a means for qualitative data analysis based on Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogical theory. We first explain the foundations of Bakhtin's theory and show the inevitability of tension in our lives and qualitative data analysis. We then offer a review of how Bakhtin's notion of tension has manifested itself in qualitative research, which prompts us to establish a tensional approach to qualitative data analysis. Final…
Reclaiming Literacy Classrooms Through Critical Dialogue
Authors Fecho, Coombs, and McAuley discuss the integral role of dialogue in literacy classrooms dominated by standardized testing, curriculum, and instruction. Their argument in support of the dialogical literacy classroom begins with a historical and theoretical justification for these principles, then transitions into a discussion of the troubling condition of schools as a result of the current lack of dialogue. By including the voices of stude…
A silence that wants to be heard
Korean American students experience invisibility and silence as their culture and presence remain outwardly invisible in the mainstream culture of US high schools. This is further exacerbated by the silent response of the dominant population of the school towards these issues. Yet, to an extent, Korean American students find a sense of comfort within that invisibility; less visibility allows more silence and thus more privacy. This qualitative in…
Feasts of Becoming
Bakhtin's language theories give educators a view into how people develop and communicate with language through dialogue. These conceptions can be applied to teaching in a variety of positive ways. The authors explore how teaching based on Bakhtinian concepts might function in the classroom, paying particular attention to the concepts of dialogue, heteroglossia, carnival, and hybridity. Although they do not provide a specific model, they refer to…
Yeki Bood/Yeki Na Bood
Fecho’s talk at the 2002 NCTE Conference upon receiving the Alan C. Purves Award involved the considerations faced by practitioner researchers as they write for publication, particularly as they encounter the template of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Why Are You Doing This
This teacher research study explores a range of ways that threat can exist and be transcended in a critical inquiry classroom by examining vignettes taken from one intensive inquiry project conducted in an urban English classroom situated in a small learning community (SLC) that was part of a large comprehensive high school
Critical Inquiries into Language in an Urban Classroom
Describes a teacher-research study using interpretive methods to address the question how learning about language connects secondary students to their world. Profiles three student inquirers, finding the students deepened their awareness of the role language plays in their lives
Developing Critical Mass
This article is an argument for imagining an ecological approach to supporting beginning teachers in critical inquiry classrooms. Working from anecdotal evidence suggesting that beginning teachers suffer from a lack of support for their efforts at establishing critical inquiry, the author suggests that educators need to think beyond the traditional structures of teacher education and consider ways of working that bridge the last years of college …
Embracing tension
In this article we introduce tension as a means for qualitative data analysis based on Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogical theory. We first explain the foundations of Bakhtin's theory and show the inevitability of tension in our lives and qualitative data analysis. We then offer a review of how Bakhtin's notion of tension has manifested itself in qualitative research, which prompts us to establish a tensional approach to qualitative data analysis. Final…
Developing Critical Mass
This article is an argument for imagining an ecological approach to supporting beginning teachers in critical inquiry classrooms. Working from anecdotal evidence suggesting that beginning teachers suffer from a lack of support for their efforts at establishing critical inquiry, the author suggests that educators need to think beyond the traditional structures of teacher education and consider ways of working that bridge the last years of college …
A silence that wants to be heard
Korean American students experience invisibility and silence as their culture and presence remain outwardly invisible in the mainstream culture of US high schools. This is further exacerbated by the silent response of the dominant population of the school towards these issues. Yet, to an extent, Korean American students find a sense of comfort within that invisibility; less visibility allows more silence and thus more privacy. This qualitative in…
Critical Inquiries into Language in an Urban Classroom
Describes a teacher-research study using interpretive methods to address the question how learning about language connects secondary students to their world. Profiles three student inquirers, finding the students deepened their awareness of the role language plays in their lives
Developing Critical Mass
This article is an argument for imagining an ecological approach to supporting beginning teachers in critical inquiry classrooms. Working from anecdotal evidence suggesting that beginning teachers suffer from a lack of support for their efforts at establishing critical inquiry, the author suggests that educators need to think beyond the traditional structures of teacher education and consider ways of working that bridge the last years of college …
Why Are You Doing This
This teacher research study explores a range of ways that threat can exist and be transcended in a critical inquiry classroom by examining vignettes taken from one intensive inquiry project conducted in an urban English classroom situated in a small learning community (SLC) that was part of a large comprehensive high school
Yeki Bood/Yeki Na Bood
Fecho’s talk at the 2002 NCTE Conference upon receiving the Alan C. Purves Award involved the considerations faced by practitioner researchers as they write for publication, particularly as they encounter the template of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Feasts of Becoming
Bakhtin's language theories give educators a view into how people develop and communicate with language through dialogue. These conceptions can be applied to teaching in a variety of positive ways. The authors explore how teaching based on Bakhtinian concepts might function in the classroom, paying particular attention to the concepts of dialogue, heteroglossia, carnival, and hybridity. Although they do not provide a specific model, they refer to…
Reclaiming Literacy Classrooms Through Critical Dialogue
Authors Fecho, Coombs, and McAuley discuss the integral role of dialogue in literacy classrooms dominated by standardized testing, curriculum, and instruction. Their argument in support of the dialogical literacy classroom begins with a historical and theoretical justification for these principles, then transitions into a discussion of the troubling condition of schools as a result of the current lack of dialogue. By including the voices of stude…
A silence that wants to be heard
Korean American students experience invisibility and silence as their culture and presence remain outwardly invisible in the mainstream culture of US high schools. This is further exacerbated by the silent response of the dominant population of the school towards these issues. Yet, to an extent, Korean American students find a sense of comfort within that invisibility; less visibility allows more silence and thus more privacy. This qualitative in…
Embracing tension
In this article we introduce tension as a means for qualitative data analysis based on Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogical theory. We first explain the foundations of Bakhtin's theory and show the inevitability of tension in our lives and qualitative data analysis. We then offer a review of how Bakhtin's notion of tension has manifested itself in qualitative research, which prompts us to establish a tensional approach to qualitative data analysis. Final…
Embracing Wobble
Contemporary school contexts present challenges for novice teachers seeking to support students’ literacy development by bringing content into dialogue with students’ lives. These challenges, framed as wobble moments, often contribute to high rates of teacher attrition. However, dialogue with peers, colleagues, and mentors can help teachers learn from the tensions they encounter as they enact dialogic literacy instruction. The authors share the s…
Thank You to Reviewers
Psychology (10 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (4 works) · Literacy (4 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 works) · Dialogical self (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)