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ERIC Number: EJ1027300
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0300-4279
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"My Place": Exploring Children's Place-Related Identities through Reading and Writing
Charlton, Emma; Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle; Pointon, Pam; Nikolajeva, Maria; Spring, Erin; Taylor, Liz; Wyse, Dominic
Education 3-13, v42 n2 p154-170 2014
This paper considers how children perceive and represent their placed-related identities through reading and writing. It reports on the findings of an 18-month interdisciplinary project, based at Cambridge University Faculty of Education, which aimed to consider children's place-related identities through their engagement with, and creation of, texts. This paper will discuss the project, its interdisciplinary theoretical framework, and the empirical research we conducted with two classes in primary schools in Eastern England. A key text used in our research was "My Place" by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins. Drawing on our interdisciplinary theoretical framework, particularly Doreen Massey's notion of place as a bundle of trajectories, and Louise Rosenblatt's notion of the transaction between the reader and the text, this paper will examine pages from "My Place," children talking about how this text connects with them, children talking about their sense of place, and maps and writing the children produced based on their place.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Grade 6
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Cambridge)
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