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From Knowing to Understanding Student Empowerment: A Narrative Approach to Research in a Middle School

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This paper examines how, as a teacher researcher, I employed a narrative approach to research to better understand my 8th grade Language Arts students’ empowerment in school. Drawing on sociocultural theory, critical pedagogy and a narrative approach to teacher research, students’ voices were privileged and compared to the systemic assumptions regarding student empowerment inherent in No Child Left Behind (NCLB) policy in order to develop a stronger professional understanding of how schools empower and disempower students.

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How to Cite: Horn, B. R. (2015) “From Knowing to Understanding Student Empowerment: A Narrative Approach to Research in a Middle School”, Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research. 17(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2470-6353.1033