Children's Voices

Download or read book Children's Voices written by Janet Maybin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on ethnographic research inside and outside the classroom, Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-old children use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about their social worlds and about themselves, as they negotiate the transition from childhood into adolescence. Through the analysis of examples of talk, 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.