Ways with words : language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. /
Shirley Brice Heath.
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- xiii, 421 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 401-414.
Contents: The Piedmont: Textile mills and times of change -- "Getting' on" in two communities -- Learning how to talk in Trackton -- Teaching how to talk in Roadville -- Oral traditions -- Literate traditions -- The townspeople -- Teachers as learners -- Learners as ethnographers -- Epilogue --
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Children--Language. Language arts. Interaction analysis in education. Community and school.