Shared territory : understanding children's writing as works / Margaret Himley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Himley, Margaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Children--Writing.

Children.

Physical Description:

234 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Summary:

This book brings together Patricia F. Carini's concept of the developing child as a "maker of works" and M.M. Bakhtin's theory of language as "hero" to re-examine how we have defined and researched early written language development. Through a collection of five essays and a documentary account of one young writer, Himley explores fundamental questions about development, language use and learning, and phenomenological reading or description as a possible interpretive methodology in education and research. She demonstrates how to understand writing as the complex semiotic authoring of self and culture enacted through actual moments of concrete language use.

Contents:

Introduction: Situating the Study, Mapping the Argument 3

The Child Making

1. The Study of Works: A Phenomenological Approach to Understanding Children as Thinkers and Learners / Patricia F. Carini 17

2. Deep Talk as Knowing 57

3. A Reflective Conversation: "Tempos of Meaning" 73

The Person Speaking

4. Bakhtin: Language as Hero in Early Written Language Development 91

5. Thinking Seriously about Children Writing: Constructing an Object of Study 110

A Child Writing

6. A Documentary Account of One Young Writer: Matthew Writing 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195061896

OCLC:

22451143