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Shared Territory: Understanding Children's Writingreviewed by Randy Bomer - 1993 Title: Shared Territory: Understanding Children's Writing Author(s): Margaret Himley Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: 0195061896, Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com The shared territory of Margaret Himley's
title is language itself, which in the case of writing means, for
her, the text, the product. It is Himley's thesis that researchers
learn the most about children's writing when they limit their
attention to the thing written. Such a notion may sound sensible
enough until one realizes what is deliberately overlooked: the
language children use to discuss what they have written, their
description of how they wrote this, the oral language in the midst
of writing, the ways the piece of writing fits into the writer's
life, the physical actions of a writer writing, the social context
of the writing event. All of these aspects of writing, which have
been central to the work of prominent researchers like Donald
Graves, Ann Haas Dyson, Lucy McCormick Calkins, and others, Himley
dismisses as behavioristic and unworkably complex. In discussions
of student works, even those of her own son, Himley erects a
stubborn barrier between the writer and the writing, asserting... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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