Reading Students' Lives

Contents

Foreword: Nick Hitchon

Chapter 1: Introducing Time

Time in Educational Research

Time in Educational Practice

Considering Trajectories

Considering Space

Chapter 2: Marvin's Story Through Three Temporal Lenses

Lemke's Timescales: Making Meaning Across Time

Bakhtin's Chronotope: Institutional Expectations and Time

Bourdieu's Habitus: Embodied Dispositions across Time

Conclusions

Chapter 3: David, Angela, & Bradford: Discourses over Time

The Language that People Use to Situate Themselves within Time

The Pace of Schooling and Temporal Language

Repeated Stories over Time

Conclusions

Chapter 4: Alicia and her Family across Time

Making Meaning across Time

Alicia and her Family

Revisiting Alicia

Conclusions

Chapter 5: Peter Becomes a Writer: The Development of Writing Habitus

Habitus and Field

Researching Habitus

Introducing Peter

Developing Writing Habitus

Conclusions

Chapter 6: Literate Trajectory as Chronotope: The Case of Jermaine

A Theoretical Framework for Trajectory: Bakhtin's Chronotope

Introducing Jermaine

The Affordances of Chronotope for Making Sense of Jermaine's Literate Trajectory

Conclusions

Chapter 7: Christy and I: Trajectories across Time

Layering Christy

Conclusions

Chapter 8: Temporal Conclusions

Afterword: Barbara Comber

Appendix A: A Longitudinal Methodology

Appendix B: Case Study Families