1st Edition

Negotiating Elite Talk Language, Race, Class and Identity Among African American High Schoolers

By John Taggart Clark Copyright 2010
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

Len Gregory is a law school student. As part of his elite law school's community outreach programme, he finds himself in a local high school several times a week passing on his own legal knowledge to the students in a course he teaches entitled Street Law. This book shows that passing on legal knowledge is not the only thing Len is doing in Street Law. He is also trying to get his students to... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Ways of Talk; Chapter 2 Successful Failure and Cultural Differences; Chapter 3 Negotiating Abstract/Speculative Inquiry in a Street Law Class; Chapter 4 From Abstract/Speculative Inquiry to Elite Inquiry; Chapter 5 Student Accommodation to Elite Inquiry; Chapter 6 Promoting Accommodation;

Biography

John Taggart Clark