Page, Reba Lower-track classrooms: A curricular and cultural perspective. New York: Teachers College Press. 1991 (chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7)
This is the tenth in a series of notes to fifteen lectures for my classITSF5016 "Ethnography of Education"
  1. A tradition of high school ethnographies emphasizing the social structuring of the student body and its implications
    1. the Lynds and Middletown (Indiana)
    2. Hollingshead and Elmstown (Illinois)
    3. Henry and "culture against man" in the United States
    4. Colin Lacey and Paul Willis in England
    5. Varenne and Sheffield (New Jersey)
    6. Rizzo-Tolk/Varenne and WestSide High School (Manhattan)
    7. Goldman and New Sheffield (New Jersey)
  2. Social class: its (re-)production and its consequences
    1. schooling those who will not make it:
      1. meta-pragmatic discourses: "they are not going to make it" (p. 37); "you know, your basic bottom" (p. 85)
      2. everyday practices
  3. Page and the differentiation of curriculum
      1. a four cell comparison
        1. Mapplehurst/Southmoor
        2. upper-track/lower-track
      2. for example, at Southmoor:
        1. "Education"
        2. and its caricature (p. 91)
  4. a methodological note
    1. ethnography and policy about tracking (p. 248)

 

Some questions
StudyPlace conversation
  • How would you relate Page to Mehan?
  • Not teaching, not learning, not being acknowledged as teaching/learning
  • class, club, and clique