| Abstract: | A bstract . Alison Cook-Sather begins this review essay with a discussion of David Tyack and Larry Cuban's generative phrase "the grammar of schooling" to provide context for her examination of three texts that address the challenges of school reform: John Sylvester Lofty's Quiet Wisdom: Teachers in the United States and England Talk About Standards, Practice, and Professionalism ; Karen Hammerness's Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes: Professional Ideals and Classroom Practices ; and Mary Kennedy's Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform . The "grammar of schooling" metaphor, according to Cook-Sather, captures what seems most fundamental and intractable about schools. Drawing on the texts under review as well as her own previous work on student voice and translation, Cook-Sather explores how bringing students into dialogue with teachers and other stakeholders might support us in translating — in the more nuanced senses of the term — the established grammar of schooling into a more flexible, responsive, and variously informed set of structures and practices that would constitute a humane educational system. |
