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

Main Author: Dyson, Anne Haas.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [1993]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations.
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Table of 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
  • Official Classroom World: A Permeable Curriculum
  • A Dialogue of Images and Sounds: The School Context
  • Classroom Context
  • Dialogic Curriculum
  • Unofficial Classroom Worlds: Children Taking Action Through Language
  • Complexity of the Children's Social Worlds
  • Composing Unofficial Neighborhoods
  • Sociocentric Child at Work and Play
  • Case Study Children: Social Actors and Literacy Users
  • 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.