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Linguistic anthropology of education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2004
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Stanton Wortham & Betsy Rymes (eds.), Linguistic anthropology of education. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Pp. 288. Hb $69.95.
In his introduction to this volume, Stanton Wortham argues for the value of a linguistic anthropological approach to education. After all, “a society's beliefs about language – as a symbol of nationalism, a marker of differences, or a tool of assimilation – are often reproduced and challenged through educational institutions” (p. 2). So too is language used in schools in ways that, often unwittingly, reproduce the inequities in society more generally; a linguistic anthropological approach is particularly well suited to pointing out the processes by which this happens.
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