Ethnographies of educational and cultural conflicts strategies and resolutions

National Curricula need to be interpreted in terms of the cultures and experience of learners and adjusted accordingly, for example a literacy and history curriculum needs to include perspectives relevant to the local culture. Teachers, learners, families and communities mediate, appropriate, subver...

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Other Authors Jeffrey, Bob, 1946-, Walford, Geoffrey
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2004.
SeriesStudies in educational ethnography ; v. 9.
Subjects
Educational anthropology.
Educational equalization.
Ethnology.
Physical anthropology & ethnography.
Education > Research.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849502757
1849502757
0762311126
9780762311125
ISSN1529-210X ;
DOI10.1016/S1529-210X(2004)9
Physical Description1 online resource (vii, 275 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • The case for partisan research: Erving Goffman and researching social inequalities / S.H. Hillyard
  • Should ethnographers be against inequality?: on Becker, value neutrality, and researcher partisanship / Martyn Hammersley
  • ICT and educational (dis)advantage: cultural resources and the digital divide / Lawrence Angus, Wendy Sutherland-Smith and Ilana Snyder
  • Writing inequalities: literacy and social class in three primary schools / Ann WIlliams and Eve Gregory
  • Addressing inequities: lessons in syncretism from Mexican American and Puerto Rican children at home and at school / Susi Long and Dinah Volk
  • "I don't think she knew I couldn't do it": Bangladeshi pupils and achievement in the early years of schooling / Sue Walters
  • Making it: Caribbean children transgressing barriers and inequality to achieve success / Colton Paul
  • Naming and dealing with inequality: immigrants students' perspective of unequal spaces in the classroom / Ruth Silva
  • Identity formation of female students in a predominantly female, multiethnic high school / Kathleen Gewinner
  • The risk zone: intersections of identity and literacy in a multiage, multilingual classroom / Katie van Sluys
  • Reducing inequalities in field relations: who gets the power? / Caroline Hudson.

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