Shirley brice heath biography of william hill
Shirley Brice Heath expressed interest in co-teaching the course, and we co-designed the course whose syllabus is attached.
Shirley Brice Heath's education, employment at Winthrop University, and other professional activities....
Shirley Brice Heath
Shirley Brice Heath is professor emeritus of linguistics and English at Stanford University and has made significant contributions to both cultural and linguistic anthropology.
Her focus is primarily within the United States, but she has also taught and carried out research in such diverse settings as Stockholm, Johannesburg, and Papua New Guinea. Her deeply engaged, longitudinal studies across a variety of cultural and institutional settings have contributed greatly to anthropology’s understanding of children and youth in postindustrial societies, as well as to the role of language, cognition, and organizational structures in learning.
The common thread among her various foci has been a concern for how the linguistic practices of children and youth from subordinated groups contribute to the development of learning and identity, both within and beyond school.
Though she has also written on the history of language policy in both the United States and Latin