This collection of work addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in education makes to anthropology and linguistics.; The first section of the book pinpoints characteristics of anthropology that most make a difference to research in education. The second section describes the perspective that is needed if the study of language is to contribute adequately to problems of education and inequality. Finally, the third section takes up discoveries about narrative, which show that young people's narratives may have a depth of form and skill that has gone largely unrecognized.
Author(s): Dell Hymes
Series: Critical Perspectives on Literacy and Education
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 224
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Series Editor's Introduction......Page 7
Prefaces......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Ethnography......Page 16
What is Ethnography?......Page 18
Educational Ethnology......Page 32
Linguistics......Page 38
Speech and Language: On the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Speakers......Page 40
Report from an Underdeveloped Country: Toward Linguistic Competence in the United States......Page 78
Narrative and Inequality......Page 122
Narrative Thinking and Storytelling Rights: A Folklorist's Clue to a Critique of Education......Page 124
Narrative Form as a Grammar of Experience: Native Americans and a Glimpse of English......Page 136
Oral Patterns as a Resource in Children's Writing: Ethnopoetic Notes......Page 158
Ethnopoetics and Sociolinguistics: Three Stories by African-American Children......Page 180
Bernstein and Poetics......Page 200
Inequality in Language: Taking for Granted......Page 222
References......Page 246
Indexes......Page 265
