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Ways in which classroom learning environments contribute to the failure of modern school, systems... more Ways in which classroom learning environments contribute to the failure of modern school, systems to serve ethnic and minority groups in large urban centers are analyzed in this ethnographic study. The study, which took place in the elementary schools of the Berkeley Unified School District, consisted of collecting ethnographic information on the school setting, classroom interaction, student family and cultural background, and peer networks; selection of key episodes; conversational-linguistic analysis of episodes; and search for comparative ethnographic data and conversational data to test the assumptions of the research. Thus, the research consisted of a comparative study within classrooMs with a focus on children in high and low reading groups and between home and school. Results of this and other studies are summarized within six categories: learning and teaching as an interactive process, differential access to learning opportunities, oral enc.; written schemata, social network influences on school children, informal learning in home and school, and methodological observations. on ethnography and natural experiments. Appendices, which form the major portion of the document, include additional notes on the collection of data, several transcripts of conversations, outlines of typical days in valious grades, and several research papers related to the topic of this study. (KC)

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Aug 17, 2006

Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, Jul 1, 1997

De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 20, 2012

Language in Society, Aug 1, 1979

Pragmatics & beyond, 1992

It is maintained in this paper that, though rarely acknowledged, gender neutrality operates as an... more It is maintained in this paper that, though rarely acknowledged, gender neutrality operates as an official curricular ideology, and thus the organizational force of gender in school settings is often hidden in unnoticed interactional and discourse practices. To examine this phenomenon, the play activities of 4-and 5-year-old girls and boys in an ethnically mixed preschool were analyzed from videotapes, and interviews with the children on their understanding of gender identity and their social representations of gender were conducted. Based on the results of these analyses and interviews, a case is made that preschool teachers, and adults in general, fail to notice the children's o!In ideas on the role of gender during play. In support of this assertion, a number of vignettes are presented. Developmentally based nursery programs encourage children to initiate their own play and be self-directed in their learning in a rich and stimulating, albeit gender-neutral, environment. But because the child's need to use gender as a category in the realization of a personal self do not match the ideological world view of the adults, they may be ignored or left unaddressed in the gender-neutral classroom. Contains 14 references. (MDM)

Linguistics and Education, 1993

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 2001

... By harnessing politeness to efficiency the designed work-place makes work into a collaborativ... more ... By harnessing politeness to efficiency the designed work-place makes work into a collaborative endeavor involving both customer and worker. ... In spite of the collaboration of the new workplace activi-ties, there remains an essential tension or asymmetry between worker and ...

Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Dec 1, 1993

This article is a case study of an African American w o m n student returning to a basic-skills p... more This article is a case study of an African American w o m n student returning to a basic-skills program in an inner-city community college. The student participates in a one-on-one writing conference in order to prepare a written essay. During a life-histoy telling by the student, the topic of her first paid job emerges. The task of transposing the telling into writing presents issues that are not covered in composition theory but that challenge accepted notions of schooled literacy. My work requires me to think about how free I can be as an African-Amencan woman in my genderized, sexualized, wholly racialized world. To think about (and to wrestle with) the full implications of my situation leads me to consider what happens when other writers work in a highly and historically racialized society.

This article is a case study of an African American woman student returning to a basic-skills pro... more This article is a case study of an African American woman student returning to a basic-skills program in an inner-city community college. The student participates in a one-on-one writing conference in order to prepare a written essay. During a life-history telling by the student, the topic of her first paid job emerges. The task of transposing the telling into writing presents issues that are not covered in composition theory but that challenge accepted notions of schooled literacy.

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 1992

2003–2005 Installment, 2005

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 2015

Language and Social Identity, 1983

General introduction In the 1950s and 1960s, many major urban areas of Britain which had been rel... more General introduction In the 1950s and 1960s, many major urban areas of Britain which had been relatively monolingual and monocultural became multiethnic for the first time. A similar process of transformation occurred in many large industrialized cities of the world and for a similar reason: the need to fill unskilled, unsocial or poorly paid jobs which could not be filled locally. Generally, therefore, the jobs of the newly settled immigrants have not been determined by their qualifications, skills, and experience, but by gaps in local labor markets. So the primary cause of immigration was the needs of workplaces, and now many workplaces are, in turn, a reflection of the new multiethnic pattern of urban life which has resulted from this labor market immigration. But the particular circumstances and pattern of this immigration have varied significantly between different countries as has the pattern of settlement of families and dependants during the 1970s. Britain is different in some respects from the rest of Western Europe, and both are quite different from the United States, Canada and Australia. Multiethnic workplaces are among those strategic research sites referred to in Chapter 1 which exemplify the problems of intergroup communication in modern industrial society. This paper arises from observation, analysis, and training programs related to communication in such multiethnic workplaces, particularly where numbers of South Asian people are employed. The first part of this chapter provides empirical background to some of the case studies in this volume and places them in a socioeconomic perspective.

Physics education research in the past two decades has focused almost entirely on pedagogical met... more Physics education research in the past two decades has focused almost entirely on pedagogical methods, but the curriculum content remains unchanged. In a recent editorial in Physics Today (July, 2006, p. 10) the ability of physicists to ``imagine new realities'' is correlated with what are traditionally considered non-scientific skills, including imagination and creativity, qualities which are usually associated with fine

Encyclopedia of Language and Education