language, life, and work in communities and classrooms /
First Statement of Responsibility
Shirley Brice Heath.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1983.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 421 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, map ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge Paperback Library
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-414) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Ethnographer learning : The Piedmont: textile mills and times of change -- "Getting' on" in two communities : In Roadville : The way ahead ; The role of schooling. In Trackton : Changin' times ; The place of children -- Learning how to talk in Trackton : The first year ; A stage for boys ; Feeling and knowing ; Becoming talkers ; Girl talk ; Making connections -- Teaching how to talk in Roadville : When the baby comes ; The first words ; Plays, toys, and games ; The rightness of the word ; Contrasts between learning and teaching -- Oral traditions : In Roadville : A piece of truth ; Children's stories. In Trackton : Talkin' junk ; Learning how to talk junk ; The traditions of story-telling -- Literate traditions : In Trackton : Concepts of print ; "Talk is the thing" ; A special case. In Roadville : Staying in touch ; A useful habit and "a good one besides" ; Bedtime stories. A question of degree and kind -- The townspeople : The way to be ; Before school ; Reading and writing ; Home, school, and work -- Ethnographer doing : Teachers as learners : A student again ; Using space and time in preschool ; Using talk ; The story in school ; The question of relevance -- Learners as ethnographers : Becoming science "translators" ; Talk about language ; Keeping journals ; From the familiar to the unfamiliar.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Ethnographer learning : The Piedmont - Trackton - Roadville - Oral traditions - Literature traditions - Townspeople; Ethnographer doing : Teachers as learners - Learners as ethnographers.