What's School about for Kids? [electronic resource] : Meanings and Uses of Homework in Young People's Lives. Families, Literacy, and Schooling: Final Report / Amy Scharf and Carol Stack.

An ethnographic study used a multidimensional social perspective on learning and literacy to look at the educational experiences and perspectives of urban young people through an examination of student homework. Subjects, upwards of 40 young people, were drawn from four sites: a sixth-grade classroo...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Scharf, Amy
Corporate Author:	National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy (U.S.)
Other Authors:	Stack, Carol
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995.
Subjects:	Classroom Environment. Educational Research. Ethnography. Family Environment. Grade 6. Homework. Intermediate Grades. Literacy. Middle Schools. Social Influences. Student Attitudes. Urban Education.