Informal Teaching and Learning

by Henze; Rosemary C.

• ISBN13: 9780805809886
• ISBN10: 0805809880
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
How to Ring a Doorbell	1	(26)
Introduction to the Study	4	(1)
The Role of Culture	5	(4)
Social Networks	9	(1)
Informal and Formal	10	(3)
Setting Boundaries	13	(4)
Types of Activity	17	(4)
The Process of Mediation	21	(4)
Framing	25	(2)
The Communities	27	(15)
Trikala and Kiriakitsa	27	(6)
Family and Neighborhood	33	(9)
Fieldwork in Kiriakitsa and Trikala	42	(13)
The Ethnographer's Role	44	(4)
Issues of Method	48	(7)
Alitheia and Psemata (Truth and Lies)	55	(18)
The Struggle (O Aghonas)	55	(6)
Psemata and Alitheia in Everyday Discourse	61	(5)
Concepts Related to Psemata and Alitheia	66	(3)
Signals of Psemata and Alitheia	69	(4)
Teaching and Learning to Do	73	(31)
Dancing	73	(9)
Cupping	82	(11)
Comparison	93	(1)
Other Procedural Episodes	93	(9)
Conclusion	102	(2)
Teaching and Learning to Understand	104	(28)
Babyclothes	104	(12)
Kinship	116	(6)
Comparison	122	(1)
Other Declarative Teaching and Learning	123	(7)
Conclusion	130	(2)
Teaching and Learning to Use Language	132	(18)
Speaking Right	132	(7)
Pronunciation Lessons	139	(5)
Comparison	144	(1)
Other Discrete-Point Teaching and Learning	145	(2)
Conclusion	147	(3)
The Particular and the General	150	(6)
Appendix A: Variation in Informal Teaching and Learning	156	(1)
Appendix B: Features of Prototypical Informal Teaching and Learning	157	(3)
Appendix C: Relationships Among Neighbors	160	(1)
Appendix D: Informal Teaching and Learning Interview	161	(3)
Appendix E: Transcripts	164	(15)
References	179	(4)
Author Index	183	(2)
Subject Index	185