Language, Ethnography, and Education

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Language, ethnography, and education : bridging new literacy studies and Bourdieu / Michael Grenfell ... [et al.].

p. cm.

1. Literacy–Social aspects. 2. Literacy–Research. 3. Language and
education. 4. Educational sociology. 5. Ethnology. 6. Bourdieu,
Pierre, 1930–2002.

I. Grenfell, Michael, 1953–

LC149.L235 20112011003273

379.2′4–dc22

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