The enactment of a curriculum event

In this study a classroom teacher uses an interpretive frame borrowed from performance-centered folklore to describe the curricular, social, and managerial goals contained in a single curriculum event in her fourth grade classroom. Also described are the linguistic, social and pedagogical tools used to accomplish these goals. The study is informed by the literature on the enacted curriculum and supports the conclusion that curriculum and instruction must be considered a single unit in order to understand classroom lessons. Although data from a two year period are used to explain the classroom context, the study focuses upon one week of morning openings--an event termed "dailies" by the classroom community. The event is described by the teacher/researcher, the students in the classroom (through open ended writing exercises), and an experienced researcher on classrooms from the University of Arizona. Hymes's "heuristic set of components" is used to analyze the event. These components are setting, participants, ends, act sequence, key, instrumentalities, norms, and genres. Insights gained into curriculum events by viewing teaching as performance are described, and implications for teacher education are raised. Findings are discussed in terms of contribution to the literatures in curriculum and instruction and in performance-centered folklore.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Teaching & Teacher Education

Grantor dc:publisher

The University of Arizona.

Year dc:date.issued

1994

Author dc:creator

• Morgan-Fleming, Barbara.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Richardson, Virginia
• Carter, Kathy

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186839

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.arizona.edu:10150/186839