Malfeasance of Method: A Response to Goldenberg

Abstract

The methodology and conclusions reported by Claude Goldenberg in his article “Low‐Income Hispanic Parents' Contributions to Their First‐Grade Children's Word‐Recognition Skills” (Anthropology & Education Quarterly 18(3): 149–179) are critiqued on three points: the methodology is not ethnographic, home‐school cultural compatibilities are not demonstrated, and the model of literacy acquisition is not supported by current theory and research .