| 1977 |
Kids make sense: An ethnographic account of the interactional management of success and failure in one first grade classroom.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Stanford University (McDermott) |
| 1977 |
"Social relations as contexts for learning in school." Harvard Educational Review 47: 198-213. (McDermott) |
| 1978 |
"Pirandello in the classroom: On the possibility of equal educational opportunity in American culture." in Futures of education.
Edited by M. Reynolds, 41-64. Reston, VA: Council on Exceptional Children. (McDermott with Jeffrey Aron) |
| 1978 |
"Criteria for an ethnographically adequate description of concerted activities and their contexts."
Semiotica 24, 3-4: 245-275. (McDermott with Kenneth Gospodinoff and Jeffrey Aron) |
| 1979 |
"Social context for ethnic borders and school failure." in Nonverbal behavior.
Edited by A. Wolfgang, 175-195. New York: Academic Press. (McDermott with Kenneth Gospodinoff) |
| 1982 |
"Institutionalized psychology and the ethnography of schooling." in Ethnography and education: Children in and out of school.
Edited by P. Gilmore and A. Glatthorn, 232-249. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics. (McDermott with Lois Hood) |
| 1982 |
"Linguistic indeterminacy and social context in utterance interpretation." Language 58: 374-398. (McDermott with John Dore) |
| 1983 |
"On the necessity of collusion in conversation." Text 3, 3: 277-297. (McDermott with Henry Tylbor) |
| 1998 |
Successful Failure, Chapter 7 (McDermott with Hervé Varenne) |
