yes, i get by with a little help from my friends

[halffull]

hiya folks! hope this finds all of you well. i think many of you have been able to keep up with me via my travel blog. thank you for your thoughts, emails and well wishes. i'm having a wonderful time.

now on to the part where i ask for

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[strangevibe]

I don't know much about the general topic but let's think of it as the cultural anthropology of education. Using that phrase in google turns up a fair amount that might get you started. At the U. Texas Austin Joel Scherzer teaches classes in linguistic anthropology about sort of "everyday life" dialog structures and rituals; I'll bet he might be able to steer you toward work in this field. (I took a course with him and have a great book on linguistic forms of play all over the world).

[strangevibe]

Another term that may get you somewhere is educational ethnography.
Here's something that pops up on the first page if I search on that.

http://www.amazon.com/Innovations-Educational-Ethnography-Theories-Methods/dp/0805845313

[royalbananafish]

I'd look into books on teaching languages, especially books on teaching culture and pragmatics.