Showing papers by "James J. Collins published in 1988"
TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of linguistic and cultural diversity on the educational achievement of working-class and minority students by re-evaluating the deficit/difference controversy of the 1960s and 1970s and examining how class and politics shape both cultural-linguistic difference and school-based assumptions about language and literacy.
Abstract: The effect of linguistic and cultural diversity on the educational achievement of working-class and minority students remains a question of great interest and controversy. This article addresses that question by reappraising the deficit/difference controversy of the 1960s and 1970s and examining how class and politics shape both cultural-linguistic difference and school-based assumptions about language and literacy. A case study of early literacy is presented which illustrates the general points by combining microanalysis of discourse and macroanalysis of institutional practice.
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