On Ethnography: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research

by Brian V. Street and Shirley Brice Heath

Book Overview

The authors weave together narratives of practice and theory that draw on their own field work and that of a novice ethnographer. Their stories take us outside the usual progression of how-to-do-ethnography, which moves from research question to data collection and analysis to publication. Readers learn of the motivations and mishaps behind the authors' own classic ethnographic studies of language, multimodal literacies, and community practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807748668
• ISBN13: 9780807748664
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"