1st Edition
Children’s Drawing and Writing The Remarkable in the Unremarkable
By Diane Mavers
Copyright 2011
164 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Children’s everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness. This book takes a very close look at what passes by largely unnoticed at home and in school: copying, texts fleetingly present then gone, a picture drawn after the valued work of writing has been completed. Examining features of children’s text making that are commonly... Read more
Preface 1: What counts as meaning? 2: Design 3: Writing as design 4: Drawing as design 5: Multimodal design 6: Redesign 7: Implications Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Diane Mavers is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literacy at the Institute of Education, University of London.
This is an exciting and innovative book that breaks new ground in the analysis of children’s writing and drawing. It offers new understandings of how children make meaning, drawing from a range of semiotic resources. This is a book suitable for anyone interested in the multimodal productions of children on paper and screen and will be of value to researchers, academics and students working in the fields of education and social semiotics.
Dr Jackie Marsh, Reader in Education, President, United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA)
