Constituting Social Membership: Two Readings of Talk in an Early Childhood Classroom.

Danby, Susan

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ERIC Number: EJ535833

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Constituting Social Membership: Two Readings of Talk in an Early Childhood Classroom.

Danby, Susan

Language and Education, v10 n2&3 p151-70 1996

Presents an analysis of the speech practices of preschool children engaged in daily play and interactions, by adopting a perspective that recognizes young children organizing social membership through talk and activity. A reading based on traditional early childhood practices is contrasted with an alternative reading showing children constructing gendered social membership. (42 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Competence, Play, Preschool Children, Sex, Social Life, Sociolinguistics, Speech Communication, Teacher Role

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Discursive Construction of Educational Identities.