Shared Territory: Understanding Children's Writing as Works

by Margaret Himley

This book brings together Patricia F. Carini's concept of the developing child as a "maker of works" and M.M. Bakhtin's theory of language as "hero" to re-examine how we have defined and researched early written language development. Through a collection of five essays and a documentary account of one young writer, Himley explores fundamental questions about development, language use and learning, and phenomenological reading or description as a possible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195061896
• ISBN13: 9780195061895
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"