Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School (Language & Literacy) - Softcover

Book 61 of 92: Language and Literacy

Dyson, A.H.

 
9780807732953: Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School (Language & Literacy)

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Dyson supports efforts to make literacy curricula accessible to our schools' socioculturally diverse population. This two-year ethnographic study of K–3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed "at-risk" and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy educators. Their literacy learning, particularly their writing development, is portrayed as a social process in a complex social world. Dyson's key theme is the link between composing a text and composing a place in this social world.

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"Dyson reconceptualizes classrooms as places for dynamic combinations of critical thinking, humor, growth, and understanding for children and their teachers." --Harvard Educational Review

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ISBN 10:  0807732966 ISBN 13:  9780807732960
Publisher: Teachers' College Press, 1994
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