The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write
Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Cultures
Will be published approx. on 19. December 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-8077-4280-8 (ISBN)
Description
Here, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of ""textual toys"" from children's lives - church and hip-hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays - upon school learning and writing.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-4280-8 (9780807742808)
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Person
Anne Haas Dyson is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School, Writing Superheroes, The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write, and with Celia Genishi, Children, Language, and Literacy: Diverse Learners in Diverse Times.