Books
All are on TC reserve. The starred items are for sale at Teachers College Bookstore
| * | Heath, Shirley Brice | Ways with words | LB1139.L3 H37 1983 |
| * | Lareau, Annette | Home advantage | LC225.3 .L37 1989 |
| * | Lave, Jean, and E. Wenger | Situated learning | BF318 .L36 1991 |
| * | Moffatt, Michael | Coming of age in New Jersey | LD4756 .M62 1989 |
| Page, Reba | Lower-track classrooms | ||
| * | Ranciere, Jacques | The ignorant schoolmaster | LB675.J242 R3613 1991 |
| * | Tobin, Joseph | Preschool in three cultures | LB1140.25.J3 T63 1989 |
Articles
All required and recommended articles are available on line. Those which are on open sites are directly linked in the online syllabus and are not listed here. Those listed here are availaable either through the TC library (you must be registered in one of my classes to have access to these) , or the Columbia e-journal collections (you will have to identify yourself and use your password to get to these when accessing the material from a non-Columbia computer)
Required
- on open sites:
- McDermott and Varenne "Culture as disability"
- Miller, Peggy Amy, Wendy, and Beth: Learning Language in South Baltimore. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1982
- Page, Reba Lower-track classrooms
- Redfield, Robert The little community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1960 [1956] (Chapters 1, 2, 3)
- through TC library (you need to be registered in the class)
Opening some of these readings requires the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat reader (version 7.0 or later)
. In general, the course web site and all linked pages are best viewed with the latest versions of any of the common browsers. Please, send me a note if one of the links do not work or you get odd effects on your browser.