[(Discourse, Learning, and Schooling)] [Author: Deborah Hicks] published on

by Deborah Hicks

Discourse, Learning, And Schooling explores theoretical and methodological relationships between children's discourse-or socially used language-and their learning in educational settings.

Unknown Binding

First published April 26, 1996

About the author

Deborah Hicks was raised in North Carolina, in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Educated in public schools, she later earned a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has been a teacher and writer for over two decades, focusing on the lives of children in poor and working-class America. The author of two previous books about literacy education, including Reading Lives, she has written for magazines such as The Progressive and DoubleTake/Point of Entry and for education journals. Deborah is the founding director of PAGE, a partnership supporting educational opportunity for girls and young women in Appalachia. She lives in Chapel Hill and, for part of each year, in Spring Creek – a rural mountain community in Madison County, North Carolina.