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Ways with words : [electronic resource] language, life, and work in communities and classrooms / Shirley Brice Heath.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.Description: xiii, 421 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521253349
  • 9780521253345
  • 0521273196 (pbk.)
  • 9780521273190 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.6 19
  • 401/.9 19
LOC classification:
  • LB1139.L3 H37 1983
Other classification:
  • DU 5000
  • ES 143
Online resources:
Contents:
Ethnographer learning. The Piedmont : textile mills and times of change -- 'Gettin' on' in two communities -- Learning how to talk in Trackton -- Teaching how to talk in Roadville -- Oral traditions -- Literate traditions -- The townspeople -- Ethnographer doing. Teachers as learners -- Learners as ethnographers -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-414) and index.

Ethnographer learning. The Piedmont : textile mills and times of change -- 'Gettin' on' in two communities -- Learning how to talk in Trackton -- Teaching how to talk in Roadville -- Oral traditions -- Literate traditions -- The townspeople -- Ethnographer doing. Teachers as learners -- Learners as ethnographers -- Epilogue.

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