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This thesis is a discursive and conversation analytic study of how people talk about gender in the context of discussions about leisure. The data comprise a corpus of over 600 pages of transcribed talk-in-interaction from a variety of sources, including dinner discussions, focus…

In this study, I examine how preteens interpret classical Hebrew literature. I explore the following questions about classroom discussion: What experiences do students link to Jewish texts? How do students question them? What patterns of interaction occur to sustain discussion? …

As income inequality is at an all-time high in the United States, many researchers write about social class and its role in schools. Most studies are situated in urban schools or high-poverty schools. There is a persistent need to explore and document how social class shapes rur…