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Verbal Artistry: A Case for Education
Author(s) -
Henne Richard B.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01055.x
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , ideology , sociology , ethnography , communicative competence , indigenous , communicative language teaching , competence (human resources) , indigenous language , pedagogy , indigenous education , language education , language policy , linguistics , psychology , social psychology , political science , anthropology , law , politics , ecology , philosophy , biology
This article expands our understanding of how language‐minoritized children's communicative competence interrelates with schooling. It features a verbal performance by a young Native American girl. A case is made for greater empirical specification of the real extent of children's non‐school‐sanctioned communicative competence. The case disrupts Euro‐Western ideologies of language and corresponding instructional policies and practices that pervade U.S. schooling. It also offers productive ways of reframing and reforming language loss in language contact situations. [ethnography of communication, verbal art, language ideologies, language policy and planning, Indigenous language education, Lakota]