| Description |
1 online resource (177 pages) |
| Series |
Encounters ; volume 9 |
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Encounters (St. Jerome Publishing) ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Key to Transcription Conventions; Introduction; 1. Ways of Talk: Abstract/Speculative Inquiry and Concrete/Empirical Inquiry; 1.1 Edison High School, Washington, D.C.; 1.2 Street Law; 1.3 The Street Law students; 1.4 The Street Law teachers; 1.5 John: The ethnographer as Street Law participant; 1.6 Gathering the data: audiotaping and videotaping; 1.6.1 Audio-video taping procedures; 1.7 Analytic method; 1.7.1 Transcription procedures; 1.7.2 Playback; 1.7.3 Discourse analysis |
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1.8 The abstract/speculative style and the concrete/empirical style1.8.1 Abstract human reference versus concrete human reference; 1.8.2 Speculative worlds vs. empirical worlds: 'what if' vs. 'what is'; 1.8.3 Idealized worlds vs. real worlds: 'what should be' vs. 'what is'; 1.8.4 Godlike objectivity vs. grounded subjectivity; 1.9 Previous studies; 1.9.1 Frederick Erickson (1969, 1984); 1.9.2 Shirley Brice Heath (1983): The force of personalized anecdotes; 1.9.3 Schatzman and Strauss (1966), Lindquist (1995), Ball (1992); 1.9.4 Literature review summary |
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2. Successful Failure & Cultural Differences: A Brief History of Scrutinizing African American Experiences with Schooling2.1 Beyond the Individual; 2.2 Successful Minority School Failure; 2.3 Reproduction Theory: schooling doesn't mitigate social inequalities; it tends to reproduce them; 2.4 Resistance Theory: people bite back (and bite themselves); 2.5 Cultural Differences Hypothesis; 2.5.1 Shirley Brice Heath; 2.5.2 Frederick Erickson and the Cultural Differences Hypothesis; 2.6 Challenges to the Cultural Differences Hypothesis; 2.6.1 John Ogbu; 2.6.2 McDermott and Gospodinoff |
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2.6.3 Frederick Erickson: bridging the gap between Reproduction/Resistance Theory and the Cultural Differences Hypothesis2.6.4 Signithia Fordham; 2.6.5 Resistance: discussion; 2.6.6 Accommodation; 2.7 Beyond failure: Minority School Success; 2.8 Conclusion; 3. Negotiating Abstract/Speculative Inquiry in a Street Law Class; 3.1 Flow of topics/class segments; 3.2 'Laws that prevent intermarriage' segment; Example 1: Godlike objectivity; Example 2: Resisting godlike objectivity; Example 3: Resisting abstract/speculative 'what should be' |
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Example 4: Promoting 'what should be' inquiry and hyperexplanationExample 5: Hyperexplanation in The Counselor as Gatekeeper; Example 6: Hyperexplanation as a symptom of crosstalk; Example 7: Resistance to 'what if' inquiry; 3.3 'Cultural mindset against intermarriage' segment; Example 8: "Say all the right-handers just got together as a group and said we're not gonna marry left-handers"; Example 9: Accommodation to abstract/speculative; 3.4 'Cultural mindset against hiring' segment; Example 10: More accommodation to abstract/speculative |
| Summary |
Len Gregory is a law school student. As part of his elite law school's community outreach programme, he finds himself in a local high school several times a week passing on his own legal knowledge to the students in a course he teaches entitled Street Law. This book shows that passing on legal knowledge is not the only thing Len is doing in Street Law. He is also trying to get his students to talk and argue about the law in the same way that he does. Len talks about legal matters using hypothetical, speculative scenarios played out by generic people - if people occur at all in his sce |
| Notes |
Example 11: Accommodation in the deconstruction of abstract cover terms |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-161) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and education -- United States
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African American students.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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African American students
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Language and education
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317641506 |
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1317641507 |
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9781315760216 |
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1315760215 |
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1905763212 |
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9781905763214 |
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9781317641483 |
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1317641485 |
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9781317641490 |
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1317641493 |
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9781138160750 |
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113816075X |
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