Research Interests

Organization and conduct of face to face interaction, sociolinguistic discourse analysis, ethnographic research methods, study of social interaction as a learning environment, anthropology of education.

Recent Publications:
    •          Definition and analysis of data from videotape: Some research procedures and their rationales. Chapter in J. Green, J. Camilli, and P. Elmore (eds.) Handbook of complementary methods in educational research. (3rd ed.) American Educational Research Association. (in press)
    •          Ethnography in collaborative action research: Working with teachers. In G. Spindler (ed.) New horizons for ethnography in education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (in press)
    •          Ethnographic description. Revised article in N. Dittmar (ed.) Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. (2nd ed.) New York/Berlin: de Gruyter.(in press)
    •          Arts, humanities, and sciences in educational research—and social engineering in federal education policy. Teachers College Record (in press)
    •          Talk and social theory: Ecologies of speaking and listening in everyday life. Cambridge UK: Polity Press, 2004.
    •          Culture in society and in educational practices. Revised chapter in J. Banks and C. M. Banks (eds.) Multicultural Education: Issues and perspectives. (5th edition) New York: John Wiley 2004.
    •          Origins: A brief intellectual and technical history of the emergence of multimodal discourse analysis. In P. Levine and R. Scollon (eds.) Discourse and technology: Multimodal discourse analysis. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004.
            •              Foreword. In K. Schultz. Listening to Teach. New York: Teachers College Press. 2003.
    •          From research "on" teaching to research "in" teaching: How I have been learning to collaborate with teachers in the portrayal of their work. Charles di Garmo Lecture 2001, Society of Professors of Education.2003.
    •          Some notes on the musicality of speech. In D. Tannen (ed.) Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics 2001. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. 2003.
    •          (with Kris Gutierrez) Culture, rigor, and science in educational research. Educational Researcher, 31:8 (November): 21-24, 2003
    •          Ethnography and policy. In B. Levinson [et al] (eds.) Ethnography and educational policy across the Americas. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003
    •          Culture and human development. In Human Development 45:4 (July-Aug.): 299-306, 2003
    •          Co-membership and wiggle room: Some implications of the study of talk for social theory. In N. Coupland and S. Saranji (eds.) Sociolinguistics and social theory. London: Longman/Pearson Education, 2003.
    •          Foreword, "The Foreman was Prejudice'." In Frances J. Riemer, Working at the Margins: Moving off Welfare in America. Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2003.2000
    •  Kids make sense . . . and they vote: The importance of child study in learning to teach responsively. New York: Bank Street College of Education, Occasional Paper 5 (1999 Barbara Biber Lecture), 2000.