Shirley Brice Heath

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Shirley Brice Heath

Anthropology

#1014

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#1362

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#508

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Shirley Brice Heath

Communications

#2819

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#4012

Historical Rank

#1246

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Linguistics

#855

World Rank

#1101

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#256

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Shirley Brice Heath's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Shirley Brice Heath is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Professor Emerita, Margery Bailey Professorship in English, at Stanford University. She graduated from Lynchburg College, Ball State University, and Columbia University, with a Ph.D. in 1970. She is a Brown University professor-at-large, and a visiting research professor at the Watson Institute.

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Shirley Brice Heath's Published Works

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Published Works

Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms (1983) (5834)
What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at home and school (1982) (1600)
Identity and Inner-City Youth: Beyond Ethnicity and Gender (1993) (293)
Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts (2004) (265)
The Functions and Uses of Literacy (1980) (240)
On Ethnography: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research. Language & Literacy (NCRLL). (2008) (181)
Oral and Literate Traditions among Black Americans Living in Poverty. (1989) (164)
Three’s Not a Crowd: Plans, Roles, and Focus in the Arts (2001) (136)
Taking a cross‐cultural look at narratives (1986) (130)
Language in the USA (1984) (126)
Telling Tongues: Language Policy in Mexico, Colony to Nation (1974) (116)
Words at Work and Play: Three Decades in Family and Community Life (2011) (99)
Seeing our Way into Learning (2000) (94)
The Braid of Literature: Children’s Worlds of Reading (1992) (93)
Children of Promise: Literate Activity in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms. NEA School Restructuring Series. (1991) (90)
A Child Resource Policy: Moving Beyond Dependence on School and Family. (1987) (86)
Leadership Giftedness: Models Revisited (1999) (85)
The Best of Both Worlds: Connecting Schools and Community Youth Organizations for All-Day, All-Year Learning (1994) (75)
Learning for anything everyday (1994) (75)
A National Language Academy? Debate in the New Nation (1976) (66)
"It's about winning!": The language of knowledge in baseball (1991) (58)
Inner City Life through Drama: Imagining the Language Classroom. (1993) (56)
Multicultural Strategies for Education And Social Change: Carriers of the Torch in the United States And South Africa (2006) (54)
Teacher talk : language in the classroom (1978) (53)
Linguistics in the Study of Language in Education. (2000) (40)
Focus in creative learning: drawing on art for language development (2005) (40)
Research Currents: A Lot of Talk about Nothing. (1983) (40)
The project of learning from the inner-city youth perspective. (1994) (38)
Making Learning Work. (2000) (36)
Joining Society: Risks, Rules, and Roles: Youth Perspectives on the Work of Learning for Community Development (2000) (36)
Literature and Language Teaching: Exploring Literary Texts with the Language Learner and Re-Creating Literature in the ESL Classroom. (1996) (36)
Family Literacy or community Learning? Some critical Questions on Perspective (2010) (32)
Learning language and strategic thinking through the arts : Cross-disciplinary collaborations (2004) (27)
Community Organizations As Family (1991) (26)
The Madness(es) of Reading and Writing Ethnography (1993) (26)
Intranasal steroid aerosol in perennial rhinitis: comparison with an antihistamine compound (1976) (26)
The Literate and the Literary (1994) (25)
Culture: Contested realm in research on children and youth. (1997) (24)
Language in the U.S.A. (1985) (23)
The Sense of being Literate: Historical and Cross-Cultural Features (2016) (22)
Re‐creating Literature in the ESL Classroom (1996) (19)
Risks, rules, and roles (2000) (17)
The world with us: Sight and sound in the “cultural flows” of informal learning. An Indigenous Australian case (2013) (16)
The Cross-Cultural Study of Language Acquisition. (1985) (15)
Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II : A Project of the International Reading Association (2015) (15)
Language Status Decisions and the Law in the United States. (1978) (13)
A National Language Academy? Debate in the New Nation (1976) (13)
On ethnography : approaches to language and literacy research : an NCRLL volume (2008) (13)
Ethnography in the Study of the Teaching and Learning of English (2016) (12)
Language socialization across cultures: What no bedtime story means: narrative skills at home and school (1987) (11)
Vision for Learning: History, Theory, and Affirmation (2007) (11)
Language Socialization in the Learning Communities of Adolescents (2017) (9)
Reading Comics, the Invisible Art (2015) (9)
Cultural psychology: The children of Trackton's children (1990) (9)
Versions of Literacy (1985) (8)
Strategic Thinking, Learning Environments, and Real Roles: Suggestions for Future Work (2005) (8)
Rethinking Youth Transitions (1999) (8)
Language policies (1983) (7)
The Book as Home? It All Depends (2010) (7)
Linguistics and Education (1984) (7)
Individuals, institutions and the the uses of literacy: Shirley Brice Heath and Claire Kramsch in conversation (2007) (6)
Individuals, institutions and the uses of literacy (2004) (6)
Brain and Behaviour: The Coherence of Teenage Responses to Young Adult Literature (2016) (5)
It’s a Book! It’s a Bookstore! Theories of Reading in the Worlds of Childhood and Adolescence (2013) (4)
Teacher Talk: Language in the Classroom. Language in Education: Theory and Practice, No. 9. (1978) (4)
The Hand of Play in Literacy Learning (2013) (4)
New Love, Long Love: Keeping Social Justice and Ethnography of Education in Mind (2011) (4)
Symposium: "Habits of Thought and Work": The Disciplines and Qualitative Research (2000) (4)
Language Socialization in Art and Science (2011) (4)
Ethnography and education: An uneasy union? (1984) (3)
The Study of Cultural Activity: Moving toward Multiple Approaches in Research on Child Development. (1993) (3)
The Foundational Bases of Learning With the Arts (2014) (3)
“So What's It About? Your Book, I Mean?” (2012) (3)
Dynamics of Completion (2006) (3)
Commentary 2. Building the micros toward seeing the macro (2006) (2)
Finding in History the Right to Estimate. (1994) (2)
Essay Reviews: A Search for Shared Backgrounds (1985) (2)
Wondrous Words: Young Children's Rewritings of Prose and Poetry. (1998) (2)
Enthusiasts for Learning: Leaders in Creativity (2012) (1)
Creativity and the work of art and science (2014) (1)
Where Our Studies of Learning Are Being Pushed (2021) (1)
Assessing the History of Literacy: Themes and Questions (2017) (1)
Adaptive Learning Across the Life Span (2020) (1)
Women in conversation: Covert models in American language ideology (1991) (1)
LiteracyStudies@OSU as Theory and Practice (2017) (1)
Finding Life in Literacy (2018) (1)
A Matter of Interpretation. (1987) (1)
Commentary: Enthusiasts for Learning: Leaders in Creativity (2012) (1)
“Hard-won joy”: Equity through collaboration (2020) (1)
The New Risktakers (2012) (1)
Ethnography as biography and autobiography (2011) (0)
Literacy Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies: Reflections on History and Theory 1 (2017) (0)
Words at Work and Play: Embracing talk (2012) (0)
A boy finds his mama(s) (2011) (0)
Language Planning in the USA@@@Language in the USA (1983) (0)
Bibliography of the History of Literacy in Western Europe and North America (2017) (0)
Subject Index Vol. 48, 2005 (2005) (0)
Toward an Ethnohlltory of Writing In American Education : Writing in (2013) (0)
Subject Index Vol. 42, 1999 (1999) (0)
Many Literacies: Reading Signs of the Times 1 (2017) (0)
Contents Vol. 48, 2005 (2005) (0)
Words at Work and Play: Notes to text (2012) (0)
Lines of vision (2011) (0)
Words at Work and Play: Ways with time and words (2012) (0)
An Annotated Bibliography on Multi-Cultural Writing and Literacy Issues. (1990) (0)
The Achievement of Preschool Literacy for Mother and Child (2020) (0)
Agnes Repplier and Writing as Trial (1993) (0)
Words at Work and Play: Shaping the mainstream (2012) (0)
Emotional factors in duodenal ulcer. (1956) (0)
Words at Work and Play: Epilogue (2012) (0)
Creative “Garages” for Community and Economic Youth Development (2014) (0)
Words at Work and Play: On methods of social history and ethnography (2012) (0)
NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTIONS (2014) (0)
Words at Work and Play: The hand of play (2012) (0)
Robert J. Di Pietro (ed.), Linguistics and the professions . Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Press, 1982. Pp. xv + 272. (1983) (0)
Committees and Commissions (1995) (0)
On being long in company (2011) (0)
Words at Work and Play: The closeness of strangers (2012) (0)
Linguistics: Language, Social Class, and Education: A Glasgow Study. R. K. S. Macaulay with G. D. Trevelyan. (1979) (0)
Narratives and Metaphors of the Middle (2011) (0)
Identity, Community, and Learning Lives in the Digital Age: Social Entrepreneurship (2012) (0)
Writers Talk Featuring Shirley Heath (2009) (0)

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