Trusting What You Know: The High Stakes of Classroom Relationships - Hardcover

Raider-Roth, Miriam

9780787971656: Trusting What You Know: The High Stakes of Classroom Relationships

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787971650 ISBN 13: 9780787971656

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2005

Trusting What You Know shows that building genuine trustworthy relationships between teachers and students is pivotal in students�?? capacity to learn. Based on an extended research study by Miriam Raider-Roth, an educational researcher and former elementary school teacher, Trusting What You Know reveals what students think about their relationships in the classroom and how these relationships affect their ability to learn. The book includes guiding principles for teachers, researchers, educators, and parents who want to understand the ways that human relationships at school fundamentally influence what children learn, know, and trust.

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Trusting What You Know

School culture shapes and is shaped by the quality of relationships contained within its walls. But how do relationships among students and teachers affect student learning?

Trusting What You Know shows that building genuine trustworthy relationships between teachers and students is pivotal in students' capacity to learn. Based on an extended research study by Miriam Raider-Roth—an educational researcher and former elementary school teacher—Trusting What You Know reveals what students think about their relationships in the classroom and how these relationships shape their ability to learn. The book includes guiding principles for teachers, researchers, educators, and parents who want to understand the ways that human relationships at school fundamentally influence what children learn, know, and trust.

Trusting What You Know introduces us to a small group of sixth-grade students who reveal the complexity and power inherent in the relationships of school. While they talk about many school relationships, they focus mainly on their relationships with their teachers. In these conversations, they describe their keen capacity to see and name both their internal and psychological processes as well as the interpersonal complexities they experience in school.

The book highlights four students—Jos�, Maya, Sharon, Gabe—and their candid interviews reveal the issues central to building trustworthy relationships in school: connection, mutuality, confidence, and meaning-making. The students recount how they construct confidence in themselves, one another, and their teachers in order to support their process of knowing and explain how their everyday classroom interactions can support confidence and instill trust. The students also describe the forces and circumstances that can lead them to disconnect when they feel trust in themselves and others is at risk.

This vital resource shows how important it is to pay attention to relationships in school because relationships form the very foundation of learning.

From the Back Cover:

How Classroom Relationships Lay the Foundation for Learning

"At once a lively story told in the voices of four animated twelve-year-olds and a conceptual argument challenging central tenets in the canon of teaching, both a handbook for teachers and a philosophical brief, Trusting What You Know will change the way we understand life in classrooms. With this revolutionary text, Miriam Raider-Roth has produced a masterpiece."
—William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago

"In this era of high stakes testing, we risk ignoring the relational side of learning. Miriam Raider-Roth reminds us that trustworthy knowledge develops in the context of trustworthy relationships. An important book for educators, parents, psychologists, researchers, and policy makers interested in understanding how children learn to trust what they know."
—Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Mandel Professor of Jewish Education, Brandeis University

"Raider-Roth listens to children's voices with subtlety, generosity, and respect, and constructs a narrative that is informative and inspiring, an analysis that is rigorous, and a view of the complexities of classroom life that give students their rightful and essential place in the public discourse about school reform."
—Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, professor, Harvard University and author of The Essential Conversation

"In the author's perceptive analysis of classroom life, of listening to students voicing their understanding of self and learning, Trusting What You Know illuminates powerfully the work and thinking we all must do to make education personal and meaningful for students and teachers. As we are faced with the increasing standardization of knowledge and students, this book helps us to understand how to create classrooms that support trust and diversity, where learning is a dynamic, honest partnership between students and teachers."
—Harriet K. Cuffaro, professor emerita, Bank Street College of Education

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