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