Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Cultural and Political Context of Schooling at Jefferson High School

3. The Functions of Lexical Items in the Asthma Project Discourse

4. Conversations on the Research Process: Scope of Data

5. The Contextualization of Participation in the Asthma Project: Response Sequences in Classroom Talk

6. Conversations on the Research Process: Defining Discourse

7. Narratives of Relevance: Seizing (or not) Critical Moments

8. Conversations on the Research Process: Questions of Reliability and Validity

9. Where Reform and Interaction Meet: Spaces for Appropriation and Resistance

10. Conversations on the Research Process: Contextualizing the Researcher

11. Apprenticing into a Community: Challenges of the Asthma Project

12. Concluding Thoughts: Applications and Implications