TR 67. From Invention to Social Action in Early Childhood Literacy: A Reconceptualization through Dialogue about Difference

By: Anne Haas Dyson
Publication: National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy Technical Report
Date: 1993

Summary: Dyson contrasts dominant assumptions about appropriate developmental practices (i.e., invented spelling, process writing) with children's interpretations of those practices, interpretations grounded in children's social and cultural worlds.

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