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Education 3117
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(805) 893-3786
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Jenny Cook-Gumperz
Professor, Ph.D. (University of London)
Emphasis:
Cultural Perspectives & Comparative Education, Research Methodology, Teaching & Learning
Research Interests:
Educational sociolinguistics; literacy as social process; socialization theory; language socialization, acquisition of communicative competence and gender; qualitative methods in Education;
Biography:
I have been a faculty member at UCSB since 1991. I teach courses in sociological theories and cultural studies of education, sociolinguistics and literacy, discourse and narrative analysis as well as other methods of qualitative analysis. I am currently emphasis leader for Cultural Perspectives. My research over the past decade concentrates on two main areas: linguistic ideology and its role in cultural practices, and socialization in different contexts and across the life span. Methodologically I continue to focus on detailed sociolinguistic analysis within a broader framework of sociological explanation. My work looks at discourse both as speaking practices, and as cultural texts that reveal the workings of social organizational life. Both areas have in common a concern with education in its broadest sense, sometimes through looking at discourse in classrooms and in schooling, and other times at discourse as it reveals socialization processes in other institutional settings.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of London, where I was a full time researcher at the Institute of Education, Sociological Research Unit working on the relationship of language, social class and school success. I was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by the Ford Foundation to come to the U.S. to explore new American theories of language and everyday social cognition. After the publication of my book, “Socialization and Social Control”: the language of mothers and children, [Routledge 1974], I received a second post-doctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Child Health and Development for further research at UC Berkeley where I continued working on young children's language and social development at the Institute of Human Learning and later the Institute of Cognitive Studies. My interest in children’s socialization processes are reflected in the edited volume “Children's Worlds and Children's Language” (J. Cook-Gumperz, W. Corsaro and J. Streeck) Mouton de Gruyter 1986.
As I became more involved in classroom research my interest shifted to looking at literacy. One outcome of this work was the National Institute of Education funded Home-School Ethnography project. Findings from this project formed the basis of a book “The Social Construction of Literacy”. In summer 2006, 20 years after its original publication, Cambridge University Press published an expanded and extensively revised edition of this volume that has now been translated into three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and Greek.
Recent Publications:
Cook-Gumperz, J. Bernstein, educational change, and gendered language. Multilingua, Vol. 28 (2/3). 2009. [Refereed Journal Article]
Cook-Gumperz, J. Rethinking Bernstein for the 21st century: Class, codes and language. Multilingua, Vol. 28 (2/3). 2009. [Edited Special Issue]
Cook-Gumperz, J. Re-examining Bernstein: Class, codes and language in a multicultural/multilingual world. Multilingua, Vol. 28 (2/3). 2009. [Introduction]
Cook-Gumperz, J. A construcao social da alfabetizacao (translation of #105-109). A construcao social da alfabetizacao. Artmed. 2008. [Edited Book]
Kyratzis, A. & Cook-Gumperz, J. Language socialization and gendered practices in childhood. In P. Duff and N.H. Hornberger (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd Edition, Vol. 8: Language Socialization 1-13. Springer Science+Business Media LLC. 2008. [Book Chapter]
Affiliations:
American Anthropological Association & Council on Anthropology and Education
American Educational Research Association
International Pragmatics Association
