On ethnography : approaches to language and literacy research / Shirley Brice Heath and Brian V. Street ; with Molly Mills.

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The authors weave together narratives of practice and theory that draw on their own field work and that of a novice ethnographer. Their stories take us outside the usual progression of how-to-do-ethnography, which moves from research question to data collection and analysis to publication. Readers learn of the motivations and mishaps behind the authors' own classic ethnographic studies of language, multimodal literacies, and community practices. The authors use their stories to illustrate the power of curiosity, connection, and continuity in ethnographic pursuits. Keeping language and literacy the central concern, this volume offers practical ways for ethnographers to sustain their attention to a constant comparative perspective and to patterns of co-occurrence in language structures, uses, and values. Appropriate for new and experienced researchers, this readable volume:

Illustrates three primary learning environments for the work of ethnographers: self-directed learning, informal communities of learners, and instructional settings within formal education. Stresses that "doing ethnography" involves engagement with public life and cannot be separated out as an academic activity. Includes examples of ethnographic studies in Australia, Iran, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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• From the NCRLL Editors (p. ix)
• Acknowledgments and an Opening for Conversation (p. xi)
• 1 Language, Culture, and Learning: Ethnographic Approaches (p. 1)
• Languages and Literacies in Symbolic Structure (p. 4)
• Culture as a Verb (p. 7)
• Learning Across Recurring Situations (p. 10)
• Multimodalities (p. 21)
• Summary (p. 24)
• Notes (p. 25)
• 2 The Ethnographer's Field Entry and Tools of Practice (p. 27)
• Entering the Field: Shirley Goes to Trackton and Roadville (p. 29)
• The Constant Comparative (p. 32)
• Co-Occurrences for Pattern Detection: Shirley Figures Out How Skateboarders Tell Time (p. 38)
• Resisting Preconceptions (p. 42)
• Reliability, Replicability, and Validities (p. 44)
• Summary (p. 47)
• 3 Setting Decision Rules for Fieldwork (p. 48)
• Literature Reviews: The Company We Keep (p. 49)
• "What Really Happens Here?" (p. 55)
• The Ethnographer as Instrument (p. 57)
• Setting Time Frames (p. 60)
• Determining the Space as "Sample" or "Case" (p. 63)
• Summary (p. 66)
• 4 Research Questions and Fieldnotes (p. 68)
• Research Questions (p. 69)
• Fieldnotes (p. 76)
• Conceptual Memos (p. 79)
• Summary (p. 81)
• 5 Analysis and Coming Home from the Field (p. 83)
• Language in Action (p. 84)
• Quantitative Analysis (p. 92)
• Discourse and Narrative (p. 93)
• Language Socialization (p. 96)
• Social Theories of Language and Literacy (p. 101)
• Summary (p. 106)
• 6 Taking Note of History and Writing Ethnography (p. 110)
• The Embrace of Anthropology (p. 112)
• Applied Anthropology (p. 119)
• Ethnography in Education (p. 120)
• Reflexivity (p. 122)
• The Making of Public Texts (p. 126)
• Summary (p. 128)
• Suggestions for Further Reading (p. 131)
• References (p. 133)
• Index (p. 145)
• About the Authors (p. 154)