When Discourses Collide : An Ethnography of Migrant Children at Home and in School
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Rethinking Childhood
ISBN-10
0820441651
ISBN-13
9780820441658
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 1999
Print length
211 Pages
Weight
308 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.90 x 1.30 cms
Ksh 4,350.00
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When Discourses Collide examines the discourse systems at work and play for three fifth grade migrant boys during an apple harvest season in south central Pennsylvania. The study is a critical ethnography that explores the lives of these children as they interacted in their families, in their friendships, with their teachers, and with their classmates. The book has a certain approachability that allows the reader to enter the homes of these children and know their families. It then moves into the classroom and seeks to address the issue of how dominant mainstream discourses overpower the discourses of marginalized children. Through countless examples, the author reveals discourse «collisions» that help to explain why schooling was such a frustrating experience for these boys, whose home language and home culture did not reflect that of the mainstream.
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