Linguistic Anthropology of Education

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Over the years, linguistic anthropological research has shown how classrooms are socializing institutions and how language functions as one medium through which this socialization is accomplished. Early work in the field has captured the immediacy of social practice and language use in educational contexts, and has created useful characterizations of variations in communicative competence. The present work builds on the strengths of prior work, showing how new theoretical concepts and empirical methods developed in linguistic anthropology over the last decade can further illuminate educational settings. The authors introduce an updated Linguistic Anthropology of Education which recognizes that, in the rapidly changing field of cultural production within which children and teachers operate today, the exploration of multiple, pre-existing forms of communicative competence is not enough. This volume elaborates theory and illustrates the tools and practices of the Linguistic Anthropology of Education to account for today's research context in which the multiplicity of identity, and the multiple ways language can be used to represent it, have important ramifications for how learning and social reproduction emerge within educational contexts.

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[c]ontributes substantially to the field, providing solid insight and analysis into how communicative processes play out in particular educational contexts, as well as bringing greater clarity to the ways in which social roles and identities are negotiated in these contexts. This is a major, "must-have" research volume for those concerned with the intersection of current theory of llinguistic anthropology and educational research....[a]n appropriate text for graduate-level courses in linguistic anthropology or educational anthropology.-Anthropology & Education Quarterly
"contributes substantially to the field, providing solid insight and analysis into how communicative processes play out in particular educational contexts, as well as bringing greater clarity to the ways in which social roles and identities are negotiated in these contexts. This is a major, "must-have" research volume for those concerned with the intersection of current theory of llinguistic anthropology and educational research....an appropriate text for graduate-level courses in linguistic anthropology or educational anthropology."-Anthropology & Education Quarterly
"[c]ontributes substantially to the field, providing solid insight and analysis into how communicative processes play out in particular educational contexts, as well as bringing greater clarity to the ways in which social roles and identities are negotiated in these contexts. This is a major, "must-have" research volume for those concerned with the intersection of current theory of llinguistic anthropology and educational research....[a]n appropriate text for graduate-level courses in linguistic anthropology or educational anthropology."-Anthropology & Education Quarterly

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STANTON E. F. WORTHAM teaches in the Educational Leadership Division at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, in the education, culture, & society specialization. BETSY RYMES is on the faculty of the School of Teacher Education, University of Georgia.