2009 "The powers of ignorance: On finding out what to do next."  Critical Studies in Education. 50, 3: 337-343. (HTML version)
2009 "Educating ourselves about education--comprehensively." in Theoretical Perspectives on Comprehensive Education: The Way Forward Edited by H. Varenne, E. W. Gordon, & L. Lin. Volume Two of the Perspectives on Comprehensive Education Series Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press. pp. 1-24.
2008 "Culture, Education, Anthropology." Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 39,4:356-368
2007 "Difficult collective deliberations: Anthropological notes towards a theory of education." in Teachers College Record, 109, 7: 1559-1587
2007 "The Production of Difference in Interaction: On Culturing Conversation through Play" inTheoretical approaches to dialogue analysis , ed. by L. Berlin,177-197. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. (with the collaboration of Mary Cotter )
2007 "On NCATE Standards and culture at work Conversations, hegemony, (dis-)abling consequences" Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 38,1: 16-23
2006 "The cultural work of learning disabilities" in Educational Researcher, 35,6: 12-17 (with Ray McDermott and Shelley Goldman)
2006 "Reconstructing Culture in Educational Research" in Innovations in educational ethnography, ed. by G. Spindler and L. Hammond, 3-31. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (with Ray McDermott)
2006 "Dr. Mom? Conversational Play and the Submergence of Professional Status in Childbirth." in Human Studies, 29, 77-105 (with Mary Cotter)
2006 "Playing with Pedagogical Authority." in Classroom authority: Theory, research, and practice, ed. by J. Pace and A. Hemmings, 63-86. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (with James Mullooly)
2001 "Ricostruire la cultura nella ricerca pedagogica." in the special issue "Antropologia, Scuola, Educazione" ed. by M. Benadusi, Scuola Democratica. (with Ray McDermott) [new version published in 2006 as "Reconstructing culture..."]
2000 “The price and value of a school of education.” Academic Questions 13(4): 62-68 (original .html presentation)
1998  "Diversity as American cultural category" in Democracy and Difference, ed. by C. Greenhouse, 25-49. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
1997  Families, education and the state in America. New York: Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
1997  "Racing in place: Middle class work in success/failure." in Education and cultural process: Anthropological perspectives, ed. by G. Spindler, 136-157. Prospects Heights, IL: Waveland Press. (with S. Goldman and R.P. McDermott) 
1996 "Love and liberty: The American family." In History of the family, ed. by A. Burguière, M. Segalen, and F. Zonabend, . London: Polity Press.
1996 "Culture, development, disability" (with McDermott, R. P.) in Ethnography and Human Development, ed. by R. Jessor, A. Colby and R. Shweder. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1995 "Culture as disability" Anthropology and Education Quarterly (with McDermott, R. P.), 26: 324-348.
1995  "The social facting of education: Dukheim's legacy." in Journal of Curriculum Studies, 27: 373-389.
1994  "Catholic reconstructions: the Center of an Irish priesthood." Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society 22, 93-139
1993  "Dublin 16: Accounts of suburban lives in Dublin." in Irish towns and cities, ed. by C. Curtin, T. Wilson, and H. Donnan, 99-121.
1992 "The question of European nationalism." in Cultural change and the new Europe: Anthropological perspectives on the European Community, ed. by T. Wilson and M. Estellie Smith. Westview Press, 223-240.
  "America and I." in American Culture: Outsiders Looking In, ed. by J. Armstrong and P. DeVita, 29-38. Wadsworth Publishing Co.
  "Joint action on the wild side of Manhattan: Understanding the power of the cultural center on educational alternative." Anthropology and Education Quarterly (with R. Rizzo-Tolk), 23: 221-249.
1990 "Parents and their Children at Talk," in Conversational organization and its Development, ed. by Bruce Dorval, 239-275. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
1989  "A Confusion of Signs: The Semiosis of Anthropological Ireland," in Semiotics, Self and Society, ed. by G. Urban and B. Lee, 121-152. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1987 "Talk and Real Talk: The Voices of Silence and the Voices of Power in American Family Life," Cultural Anthropology 2: 369-394.

"Analytic Ambiguities in the Communication of Familial Power," in Power through Discourse, ed. by L. Kedar, 129-151. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
1986  "'Why' Sheila Can Read: Structure and Indeterminacy in the Reproduction of Familial Literacy," in The Acquisition of Literacy: Ethnographic Perspectives, ed. by B. Schieffelin and P. Gilmore, 188-210. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. (with McDermott, R. P.)

"Familles Américaines," in Histoire de la Famille. Ed. by Martine Segalen, André Burguière et Françoise Zonabend, 413-435. Paris: Armand Colin.(English Translation)
1984

"When School Goes Home: Some Problems and Defensive Tactics," Teachers College Record 85: 391-409. (with McDermott, R. P. and S. Goldman)

"Collective Representation in American Anthropological Conversations about Culture: Culture and the Individual," Current Anthropology 25: 281-300.

"The Interpretation of Pronominal Paradigms: Speech Situation, Pragmatic Meaning and Cultural Structure," Semiotica 50: 221-248.
1983  "The Production of Kinds of Ethnic Discourse in the United States: American and Puerto-Rican Kinds," in The Sociogenesis of Language and Human Conduct, ed. by B. Bain, 553-68. New York: Plenum. (with F. Ruskin)

 "Language and Learning," Society 20: 70-76
1982  "Jocks and Freaks: The Symbolic Structure of the Expression of Social Interaction among American Senior High School Students," in Doing the Ethnography of Schooling, ed. by G. Spindler, 210-235. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
1981 "Symbolizing American Culture in Schools," Character 2: 1-9.

"A New Direction in Community Studies: One French Village--Three Books," Reviews in Anthropology 8: 105-119

"Family, Language and Education: The Sociolinguistic Model of Restricted and Elaborated Codes," Social Science Information 20: 187-228. (with C. Hill)
1978  "Is Dedham American? The Diagnosis of Things American," Anthropological Quarterly 51: 231-245.

"Culture as Rhetoric: The Patterning of the Verbal Interpretation of Interaction between Teachers and Administrators in an American High School," American Ethnologist 5: 635-650.
1976 "American Culture and the School," in The Anthropological Study of Education, ed. by C. Calhoun and F.A.J. Ianni, 227-237. The Hague: Mouton & Co.

"Friendship and Fairness: Ideological Tensions in an American High School," Teachers College Record 77: 601-614. (with M. Kelly)
1974  "From Grading and Freedom of Choice to Ranking and Segregation in an American High School," Council on Anthropology and Education Quarterly 5: 9-15

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