Peter Smagorinsky
At 07:18 PM 2/8/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Bill, your comments on groups outside of school resembling degrees of
>apprenticeship reminded me of a talk that Shirley Brice Heath gave last
>Fall in Boulder regarding her last five (seven?) (ten?) years of
>research, which was specifically about community learning practices
>outside of school. She commented that all of the sites of community
>learning employed multiple degrees of apprenticeship, as well as oral
>modeling - the apprentices would be _talked_ through their practice in
>addition to the physical practice. Marked degrees of community practice
>were established, and if one didn't conform to the community practice
>then one was excluded.
>I have been watching for text to appear on her present work - it involves
>multiple communities across the U.S., including rural, urban, suburban
>and inner city.
>
>Perhaps someone else could add to this.
>
>Phillip
>
>Phillip White
>pwhite who-is-at carbon.cudenver.edu
>
>
Peter Smagorinsky
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