Author Description

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. Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Transcription Conventions; Introduction; Chapter 1 Setting The Scene; Chapter 2 Context, Genre And Frames; Chapter 3 Dialogue And Collaboration: Girls And Boys; Chapter 4 Reported Voices And Evaluation; Chapter 5 Articulating Dialogue: Agency And Gender In Children's Anecdotes; Chapter 6 Narrative Reflections And Moral Complexities; Chapter 7 Schooled Voices; Chapter 8 Official And Unofficial Literacies; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index By J. Maybin. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 197-203) And Index. English