Revisited article: Re-embedding "Disembedded" Visions of Young Children's Writing Dev't
By: Anne Haas Dyson
Publication:
The Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1
Date: Winter 1995
Summary: In this 1988 Quarterly piece Anne Haas Dyson discusses the theories of Russian developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky, looks at children's use of writing, drawing and talking in early schooling—with recorded examples from her classes—and considers the implications, for teacher of writing to young children, of the developmental picture that emerges. Children, she maintains, must come to view texts not as mere representations of meaning but as places where meaningful social interactions can occur.
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