Shared Territory

This book brings together Patricia F. Carini''s concept of the developing child as a maker of works and M.M. Bakhtin''s theory of language as hero to re-examine how we have defined and researched early written language development. Through a collection of five essays and a documentary account of one young writer Himley explores fundamental questions about development language use and learning and phenomenological reading or description as a possible interpretive methodology in education and research. She demonstrates how to understand writing as the complex semiotic authoring of self and culture enacted through actual moments of concrete language use.