Many of Anne Dyson's writings fit within this category. Her case studies
are well grounded and written from a good ethnographic sense of the larger
classroom context. Also, Luis Moll's "funds of knowledge" studies are an
essential complement to the classroom/school perspective and give a larger
picture of children's experience and interactions. I found his co-authored
article in Contexts of Learning to be a good look inside the classroom and
I hope he'll do more of this too.
Pete Farruggio
>Dear Xmca-i-fiers,
>
>By way of meaning being a process (some of whose reifications give all
>the appearnaces of just being there to be manipulated), I have been
>wanting to ask for some time about the notion of "the culture of
>the classroom." I was afraid to break into the discussion to ask,
>but the recent postings on social class, ethnicity, and classrooms
>seems to be right in that domain.
>
>So, is it useful to think of a "cutllture of the (a) classrom"? What
>are the classic writings on this topic? How do I find out the
>major current views?
>
>We will be discussin this topic next quarter at LCHC. I will be glad
>to provide a summary to references we put together as feedback.
>mike