Bibliography - English

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Bibliography
Resources for Teaching Qualitative Inquiry
Beach, Richard, and Margaret J. Finders. "Students as Ethnographers: Guiding Alternative
Research Projects." English Journal 89.1 (1999): 82-90.
Clifford, James, and George E. Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of
Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Denzin, Norman K., and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds. Handbook of Qualitative Research. 2nd. ed.
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2000.
Egan-Robertson, Ann, and Jerri Willett. "Students as Ethnographers, Thinking and Doing
Ethnography: A Bibliographic Essay." Students as Researchers of Culture and Language
in Their Own Communities. Eds. Ann Egan-Robertson and David Bloome. Cresskill,
New Jersey: Hampton Press, 1998. 1-32.
Hess, David J. "Teaching Ethnographic Writing: A Review Essay." Anthropology & Education
Quarterly 20.3 (1989): 163-76.
General Qualitative Research and Writing Sources
Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes.
Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1995.
Fetterman, David M. Ethnography: Step by Step. Applied Social Research Methods Series. Vol.
17. Newbury Park: Sage, 1989.
Lareau, Annette, and Jeffrey Schultz, eds. Journeys Through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of
Fieldwork. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996.
Sunstein, Bonnie, and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater. Fieldworking: Reading and Writing Research.
2 nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002.
Van Maanen, John. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1988.
Weiss, Robert S. Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies.
New York: Free Press, 1994.
Wolcott, Harry F. Ethnography: A Way of Seeing. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira, 1999.
Wolcott, Harry F. Writing up Qualitative Research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.
Ethnographies
Bissenger, H. G. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo
Press, 2004.
Cintron, Ralph. Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday. Boston:
Beacon, 1997.

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Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. New York: Owl
Books, 2001.
Fadmian, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1998.
Geertz, Clifford. “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight.” The Interpretation of Cultures.
New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Hersch, Patricia. A Tribe Apart : A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence. New York:
Ballantine, 1999.
Humes, Edward. School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2003.
Orenstein, Peggy. Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap. New York:
Anchor Books, 2000.
Rosaldo, Renato. “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage.” Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social
Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
Thematic Sources
Qualitative Studies of Literacy
Barton, David and Mary Hamilton. Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community.
New York: Routledge, 1998.
Beaufort, Anne. Writing in the Real World: Making the Transition from School to Work. New
York: Teachers College Press, 1999.
Carroll, Lee Ann. Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers. Studies in
Writing and Rhetoric Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.
Chiseri-Strater, Elizabeth. Academic Literacies: The Public and Private Discourse of University
Students. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1991.
Farr, Marcia. “En Los Dos Idiomas: Literacy Practices Among Chicago Mexicanos.” Literacy
Across Communities. Ed. Beverly J. Moss. Cresskill; NJ: Hampton Press, 1994. 9-47
Finders, Margaret. Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High. New York: Teachers
College Press, 1997.
Fishman, Andrea. “Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish.” In A. A. Lunsford, H.
Moglen, and J. Slevin Eds. The Right to Literacy. New York: Modern Language
Association, 1999. 29-38
Fishman, Andrea. ‘Because This is Who We Are: Writing in the Amish Community’. In D.
Barton and R. Ivanic (Eds.) Writing in the Community. Newbury Park: Sage, 1991.
Heath, Shirley Brice. Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and
Classrooms. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Knobel, Michelle. Everyday Literacies: Students, Discourse, and Social Practice. New York:
Peter Lang, 1999.
Lunsford, Andrea A., Helene Moglen, and James Slevin, eds. The Right to Literacy. New York:

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MLA, 1990.
Mahiri, Jabari, ed. What They Don’t Learn in School: Literacy in the Lives of Urban Youth.
New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
Mahiri, Jabari and Soraya Sablo. “Writing for Their Lives: The Non-School Literacy of
California’s Urban African American Youth.” Journal of Negro Education 65.2 (1996) :
164-246.
Moje, Elizabeth. “‘To Be Part of the Story’: The Literacy Practices of Gangsta Adolescents.”
Teachers College Record 102.3 (2000) : 651-690.
Moss, Beverly J. “Creating a Community: Literacy Events in African-American Churches.”
Ed. Beverly Moss. Literacy Across Communities. Hampton Press, 1994. 147-178.
Moss, Beverly J. “A Literacy Event in African-American Churches: The Sermon as a
Community Text.” Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City’s
Neighborhoods. Marcia Farr. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
Worth, Anderson, et al. “Cross-Curricular Underlife: A Collaborative Report on Ways with
Academic Words.” CCC 41.1 (1990) : 11-36.
Qualitative Inquiry and Literacy
Adler-Kassner, Linda, ed. Considering Literacy: Reading and Writing the Educational
Experience. New York: Longman, 2005.
Barton, David. Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Malden, Mass.:
Blackwell Publishers, 1994.
Camitta, Miriam. “Adolescent Vernacular Writing: Literacy Reconsidered.” Ed. A. A. Lunsford,
H. Moglen, and J. Slevin. The Right to Literacy. New York: Modern Language
Association, 1999. 262-268
Camitta, Miriam. “Vernacular Writing: Varieties of Literacy among Philadelphia High School
Students.” Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy. Ed. B. Street. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993. 228-246.
Doheny-Farina, Stephen and Lee Odell. "Ethnographic Research On Writing: Assumptions and
Methodology." Writing in Nonacademic Settings. Ed. Lee Odell and Dixie Goswami.
New York: Guilford P, 1985. 503-535.
Gere, Anne Ruggles. "Kitchen Table and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition."
CCC 45.1 (1994) : 75–92.
Kutz, Eleanor. Exploring Literacy: A Guide to Reading, Writing, and Research. New York:
Pearson-Longman, 2004.
Moss, Beverly J. "Ethnography and Composition: Studying Language at Home." Methods and
Methodology in Composition Research. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992. 153-71.
Moss, Beverly J, ed. Literacy across Communities. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton, 1994.
Weinstein-Shr, Gail. “Literacy and social process: A community in transition.” Cross-Cultural
Approaches to Literacy. Ed. B. Street. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

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Resnick, Lauren. “Literacy In School and Out.” What Counts as Literacy: Challenging the
School Standard. Ed. M. A. Gallego & S. Hollingsworth. New York: Teachers College
Press, 2000. 27-41.
Szwed, John. “The Ethnography of Literacy.” Writing: The Nature, Development, and Teaching
of Written Communication. Ed. Marcia Farr Whiteman. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
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Qualitative Inquiry and Technology
Baron, Dennis. “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies.” Passions,
Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Ed. Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe.
Logan, UT: Utah St UP, 2000. 15-33.
Rehn, Alf. “The Politics of Contraband: The Honor Economies of the Warez Scene.” Journal of
Socio-Economics 33 (2004): 359-74.
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Schofield Clark, Lynn. “Challenges of Social Good in the World of Grand Theft Auto and
Barbie: A Case Study of a Community Computer Center for Youth.” New Media &
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Silberman, Steve. “We're Teen, We're Queer, and We've Got E-Mail.” 1994. Wired. 7 March
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Qualitative Inquiry and Education
Barber, Benjamin. “America Skips School: Why We Talk So Much About Education and Do So
Little.” Harper’s Magazine. November 1993.
Botstein, Leon. “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood.” The New York Times 17 May 1999.
Goode, Stephen and Timothy W. Maier. “Inflating the Grades.” Insight on the News. 25 May
1998.
Rothenberg, David. “Learning in Finland: No Grades, No Criticism.” Chronicle of Higher
Education 45.9. 1998.
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Vogel, Steven. “Grades and Money.” Dissent. Fall 1997.
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