Children's Voices: Talk, Knowledge and Identity - Softcover

Maybin, J.

 
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Synopsis

Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-olds use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about their social worlds and themselves. She shows how children use collaborative verbal strategies, stories of personal experience and the reworked voices of others to investigate the moral order and forge their own identities.

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About the Author

JANET MAYBIN is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at the Open University, UK. She has written extensively for Open University courses on language, literacy and learning, and also researches and writes on children's and adults' informal language and literacy practices. She originally trained as a social anthropologist.

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ISBN 10:  1403933308 ISBN 13:  9781403933300
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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