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Social worlds of children learning to write in an urban primary school
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Social worlds of children learning to write in an urban primary school

Author: Anne Haas Dyson
Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anne Haas Dyson
ISBN: 0807732966 9780807732960 0807732958 9780807732953
OCLC Number: 28213942
Description: x, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Composing a Place in the Classroom Neighborhood --
Framing Child Texts with Child Worlds: Ways of Studying Language, Literacy, and Diversity --
Learning to Write as Social Work --
Cultural Traditions in School Worlds --
Children Discovering and Crossing Cultural Boundaries --
Studying Children's Social and Text Worlds --
The Official Classroom World: A Permeable Curriculum --
A Dialogue of Images and Sounds: The School Context --
The Classroom Context --
The Dialogic Curriculum --
Unofficial Classroom Worlds: Children Taking Action Through Language --
The Complexity of the Children's Social Worlds --
Composing Unofficial Neighborhoods --
The Sociocentric Child at Work and Play --
The Case Study Children: Social Actors and Literacy Users --
The Social Work and Symbolic Tools of Child Composers --
Beginning Portraits --
On Child Composing as Social Work --
Jameel: Staking a Claim on the Official Literacy Curriculum --
Jameel: The Case of the Singing Scientist, Part I --
Jameel Midyear: Negotiating a Classroom Place --
Coda: On Boundaries --
Jameel: Claims, Inroads, and Emerging Crossroads --
Jameel: The Case of the Singing Scientist, Part II --
Summary: Finding a Social Place at School --
Lamar and Eugenie: From Textual Crossroads to Curricular Side Roads --
Toward Texts as Curricular Crossroads --
Composing on Curricular Side Roads --
On Crossroads, Side Roads, and Unpredictable Stories --
Ayesha and William: The Politics of Composing in the Third Grade --
Louise's Third-Grade Class --
William and Ayesha.
Responsibility: Anne Haas Dyson.

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