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Janet Maybin - Children's Voices - 9781403933317 - V9781403933317
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Children's Voices

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Description for Children's Voices Paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFD; CFG; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403933317
SKU
V9781403933317
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Janet Maybin
JANET MAYBIN is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at the Open University, UK. She has written extensively for Open University courses on language, literacy and learning, and also researches and writes on children's and adults' informal language and literacy practices. She originally trained as a social anthropologist.

Reviews for Children's Voices
'It is not often that you are gripped by an academic book. I read Janet Maybin's book through in almost one reading, gripped by the range of insights she offers into children's off-record talk, her judicious use of social and cultural theory, her many new insights into the significance of styling and voicing emotion and evaluation in everyday dialogue, her ... Read more

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