Learning Identity: The Joint Emergence of Social Identification and Academic Learning - Softcover

Wortham, Stanton

 
9780521608336: Learning Identity: The Joint Emergence of Social Identification and Academic Learning
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521608333 ISBN 13: 9780521608336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book shows how social identification and academic learning are deeply interdependent.

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About the Author

Stanton Wortham is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He also has appointments in Anthropology, Communications and Folklore. His research applies techniques from linguistic anthropology to study interactional positioning and social identity development in classrooms. He is particularly interested in interrelations between the official curriculum and covert interactional patterns in classroom discourse, and in how the processes of learning and identity development interconnect. Dr. Wortham has written widely on classroom discourse and the linguistic anthropology of education. He has been a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow and a National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2001 he received the American Educational Research Association Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521608333
ISBN 13 
9780521608336
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
316

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