Rewriting for, and by, the Children: The Social and Ideological Fate of a Media Miss in an Urban Classroom.

Dyson, Anne Haas

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ERIC Number: EJ551938

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Publication Date: 1997

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Rewriting for, and by, the Children: The Social and Ideological Fate of a Media Miss in an Urban Classroom.

Dyson, Anne Haas

Written Communication, v14 n3 p275-312 Jul 1997

Presents and considers the vision of children as receptors of adults' ideological messages. Reviews examples of adults' rewriting for children, drawing primarily on the rewriting of folk stories. Reconstructs, using ethnographic data from urban schools, one branch of a classroom chain of communication. Discusses the classroom conditions that seemed to support the activation of the dialogic event examined. (PA)

Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Ethnography, Ideology, Primary Education, Revision (Written Composition), Socialization, Urban Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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