Children's Voices
Author: Janet Maybin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006-04-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403933300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on ethnographic research inside and outside the classroom, Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-old children use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about their social worlds and about themselves, as they negotiate the transition from childhood into adolescence. Through the analysis of examples of talk, 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.