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Article: Inventing A Classroom: Life in a Bilingual, Whole Language, Learning Community
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- Bilingual Research Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright National Association for Bilingual Education Spring 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Whitmore, K. F. & Crowell, C. G. (1994). Inventing A Classroom: Life in a Bilingual, Whole Language, Learning Community. York, ME: Stenhouse. (pp. 273) $18.50 paper text.
Reviewed by: Candace Kelly
University of California, Santa Barbara
I regard this book to be an exemplary ethnography of a whole language, third grade, bilingual classroom which captures the essence of students inventing curriculum grounded in social constructivism. Readers looking for technical ethnographic methodology with in-depth coverage of sampling decisions will instead find the book's focus on content of classroom talk. The authors' stated intent is to shed light on how and why whole language discourse ...