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Successful Failure by Hervé Varenne and Ray McDermott with the collaboration of |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE |
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| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Schooling and cultural fact [excerpt] | |||
| Culture in question | |||
| Culture and context [excerpt] | |||
| Adam, Sheila, Joe, and others at cultural work | |||
| Education in America | |||
| Chapter 1 | Adam, Adam, Adam, and Adam |
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| Three accounts of the house Adam inhabits | |||
| Making banana bread and other troubles | |||
| Making IQs in public | |||
| The cultural construction of learning disabilities | |||
| Chapter 2 | The house of Farrell, and the House of Kinney Literacies at home |
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| Sheila and Joe | |||
| Familial literacy | |||
| The eye ointment scene | |||
| Special literacy | |||
| Homework and school literacy | |||
| Variations in the doing of school at home | |||
| Culture: A first approximation | |||
| Chapter 3 | The voice of the choir, the voices in the choir |
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| Religion, therapy, a Lutheran Italian choir director, and some street kids |
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| Coming together | |||
| The rehearsal | |||
| And then, something happened... | |||
| Pulling apart | |||
| The performance of talent | |||
| Chapter 4 | Joint action on the wild side of Manhattan |
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| West Side High School: Center and periphery | |||
| The Study: One moment in American time | |||
| Classroom construction -- A teacher's task | |||
| Classroom (de-)construction -- A student's task | |||
| A teacher's task for her students | |||
| The voice of the group: laughter, resistance and reconstruction | |||
| The voice of the center | |||
| Chapter 5 | Racing in place |
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| The performance of success in everyday life The competitions of everyday life in Allwin Junior High The ritual organization of sorting: standardized times The social organization of sorting: meetings in uncertainty The people of Hamden Heights and their activity Mutualities in success and failure Work and resistance in culture |
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PART TWO |
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| Chapter 6 | Education in culture
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Defining difficulties as disabilities: sightedness The fabrication of a cultural disability: deafness Three ways to write about difficulties in school Cultural explanations of poverty and other disabilities Education and Difference Patterns of Southern Cultures Adaptive withdrawal American education as a culture |
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| Chapter 7 | Ways with Theoretical Words
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| The intuition of culture Intuitions denied Current common senses of culture Cultural psychologies of intentionality A sociology of educational practices and habits Deconstructive agency in cultural conditions: problems and possibilities Constructing walls and other boundaries | |||
| Chapter 8 | Local construction and educational facts
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| Emergence and accountability in real time A particular instance Constructing labels Social constructions and cultural reality Deconstruction and local faction The "I" in the cultural machine | |||
| Conclusion | Beyond explaining why
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| Appendix A | 219 | ||
| Appendix B | 221 | ||
| Appendix C | 235 | ||
| Bibliography | 243 | ||
LIST OF FIGURES
| Introduction | ||
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| 0.1 | The twisted rope illusion | 24 |
| Chapter 1 | ||
| 1.1 | A continuum of settings and three ways of thinking about them | 54 |
| Chapter 2 | ||
| 2.1 | Structural replication of task-performance evaluation sequences at school and at home |
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| Chapter 3 | ||
| 3.1 | Major positionings | 131 |
| 3.2 | First half of group rehearsal | 132 |
| 3.3 | Detail of singing segment #3 | 137 |
| 3.4 | Asking for information (first occurence) | 138 |
| 3.5 | Asking for information (second occurence) | 139 |
| 3.6 | Giving information (first occurence) | 139 |
| 3.7 | Giving information (second occurence) | 139 |
| Chapter 4 | ||
| 4.1 | Major segments during first 20 minutes | 167 |
| 4.2 | Sequencing of the positionings during student discussion | 169 |
| 4.3 | Start of ranking sequence | 171 |
| 4.4 | End of ranking sequence | 174 |
| Chapter 8 | ||
| 8.1 | "I could ready it" -- Transcript | 188 |
| 8.2 | Main positionings | 190 |
| 8.3 | Sequencing of positionings | 196 |
| 8.4 | Instances of the main positionings | 197 |
| 8.5 | Major subsequences | 198 |
| 8.6 | Jimmy and Rosa protest -- Transcript | 199 |
| 8.7 | Jimmy and Rosa protest -- Frames from video | 200 |
| Appendix B | ||
| B.1 | Transcript of main sequence | 221 |
| Appendix C | ||
| C.1 | Transcript | 237 |