Children's Voices: Talk, Knowledge and Identity

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.

Author: J. Maybin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 207
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.86h x 5.48w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781403933300

About the Author
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.