Ethnography : Approaches to language and literacy research
/ Heath,Shirley Brice
- London Routledge 2008
- 152 p
1. Language, culture and learning : Ethnographic approaches 2. Languages and literacies in symbolic structure 3. Culture as verb 4. Learning across recurring situations 5. Multimodalities 6. Summary 7. Notes 8. The Ethnographer’s field entry and tools of practice 9. Entering the field : Shirley goes to trackton and roadville 10. The constant comparative 11. Co-Occurrences for pattern detection : Shirley figures out how skateboarders tell time 12. Resisting preconceptions 13. Reliability, replicability, and validities 14. Summary 15. Setting decision rules for fieldwork 16. Literature reviews : the company we keep 17. What really happens here ? 18. The Ethnographer as instrument 19. Setting time frames 20. Determining the spaces as Sample or case 21. Summary 22. Research questions and field notes 23. Research questions 24. Field notes 25. Conceptual memos 26. Summary 27. Analysis and coming home from the field 28. Language in action 29. Quantitative analysis 30. Discourse and narrative 31. Language socialization 32. Social theories of languages and literacy 33. Summary 34. Taking note of history and writing Ethnography 35. The embrace of anthropology 36. Applied anthropology 37. Ethnography in education 38. Reflexivity 39. The making of public texts 40. summary