Working-Class Children’s Experience through the Prism of Personal Storytelling

By P. Miller, Grace E Cho, J. Bracey. Human Development, 2005

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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The Myth of the "Culture of Poverty" (2008, background): “What's more, linguists have known for decades that all language varieties are highly structured with complex grammatical rules (Gee, 2004; Hess, 1974; Miller, Cho, & Bracey, 2005 ).”
Elaboration and Autonomy Support in Low-Income Mothers' Reminiscing: Links to Children's Autobiographical Narratives (2009, background): “Ethnographic research indicates that personal storytelling is rich and valued in working-class Black communities, as it is in working-class European American communities (Burger & Miller, 1999; Heath, 1982; Miller et al., 2005; Sperry & Sperry, 1996), but existing research has not explicitly compare”
Educational Effects of a Vocabulary Intervention on Preschoolers' Word Knowledge and Conceptual Development: A Cluster‐Randomized Trial (2011, background): “, studies published only in peer-reviewed journals, randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental studies), the National Early Literacy Panel (2008) reported moderate effects of storybook reading interventions, with an effect size estimate ranging from 0.”
Unlearning Deficit Ideology and the Scornful Gaze: Thoughts on Authenticating the Class Discourse in Education (2010, background): “Linguists have known for decades that all language varieties are highly structured with complex grammatical rules and syntaxes (Gee, 2004; Hess, 1974; Miller, Cho, & Bracey, 2005).”
Identifying Pathways Between Socioeconomic Status and Language Development (2017, background): “Children from these communities are exposed to and engage in personal storytelling at an early age, thereby developing culture-specific narrative skills (Burger & Miller 1999, Miller et al. 2005).”
Maternal Elaborative Reminiscing Increases Low-Income Children's Narrative Skills Relative to Dialogic Reading (2010, background): “This finding also suggests that storytelling is an important family value and a frequent family practice in non-mainstream communities (eg, Cho & Miller, 2004 ; Miller, Cho, & Bracey, 2005 ).”
When Choice Does Not Equal Freedom (2011, background): “Socialization practices convey to children that the world is not just about them (P. J. Miller et al., 2005).”
Does Choice Mean Freedom and Well‐Being? (2010, background): “Because fitting in with others and following socially accepted rules and standards for behavior is often an important route to upward mobility, working-class environments are relatively likely to stress conformity to standards and the importance of showing respect for and deference to authority (Koh”
Pathologizing the Language and Culture of Poor Children (2009, background): “As Miller, Cho, and Bracey (2005a) put it, “Problems of ethnocentric bias, of invidious comparisons, of dichotomizing differences, of minimizing variation within groups [continue] to plague discussions when children from working-class, poor, or minority backgrounds are compared with their…”