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