Conversational borderlands : language and identity in an alternative urban high school / Betsy Rymes.
This study of an innovative charter school looks closely at adolescent identity by analyzing the language of narratives told in school. The author helps us to understand why adolescents sometimes make choices that seem incomprehensible to the adults who work with them. The book links issues of schoo...
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
℗♭2001.
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| Series: | Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- School in the city
- Dropping out
- The language of dropping out
- Reframing dropping out narratives
- Dropping in: narratives of school success
- Names
- When friends aren't friends
- Rights to advise
- School closure
- On teaching and reform.