Children's drawing and writing : the remarkable in the unremarkable / Diane Mavers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mavers, Diane.

Series:

Routledge Research in Education

Routledge research in education ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's drawings.

Children's writings.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Children's everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness. This book takes a very close look at what passes by largely unnoticed at home and in school: copying, texts fleetingly present then gone, a picture drawn after the valued work of writing has been completed. Examining features of children's text making that are commonly disregarded because of their very ordinariness, or dismissed as mistakes because they are flawed or lacking, the book examines features such as shading, arrangement and forms of shorthand, and uncove

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 A Lens on the Unremarkable; 2 'Copying'; 3 Ordinariness; 4 'Getting it Wrong'; 5 'Jumble', Shorthand and Repetition; 6 Fleeting Texts; 7 Remaking; 8 From the Unremarkable to the Remarkable; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-91960-0

1-283-03749-1

9786613037497

0-203-84436-X

9780203844366

OCLC:

701703882