(Not in Children’s Drawing and Writing
The Remarkable in the Unremarkable
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$140.00$126.00 - Hardback: 144 pages
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- Published: November 2010
- ISBN: 978-0-415-96155-4
- Publisher: Routledge
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- By Diane Mavers.
Series: Routledge Research in Education.
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 disregarded because of their very ordinariness, or dismissed as mistakes because they are flawed or lacking, the book examines features such as shading, arrangement and forms of shorthand, and uncovers an intensity of effort in the making of meaning. In decisively shifting the focus away from insufficiency to what children can do and to the ‘work’ they invest in the texts they make, the lens taken here reveals resourcefulness and purposiveness. The unremarkable turns out to be remarkable. This has the most profound implications for what takes place at school, and beyond.
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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)
Author/Editor Biography
Diane Mavers is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literacy at the Institute of Education, University of London.
