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The Meaning Makers Gordon Wells

The Meaning Makers By Gordon Wells

The Meaning Makers by Gordon Wells

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The Meaning Makers traces the language and literacy development of a large, representative sample of children from age 1 to 10, quoting liberally from observations made at home and at school. Setting the findings of the study in the context of recent research, it offers suggestions for improving children's opportunities for learning.

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The Meaning Makers: Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn by Gordon Wells

The Meaning Makers is about children's language and literacy development at home and at school. Based on the Bristol Study, Language at Home and at School, which the author directed, it follows the development of a representative sample of children from their first words to the end of their primary schooling. It contains many examples of their experience of language in use, both spoken and written, recorded in naturally occurring settings in their homes and classrooms, and shows the active role that children play in their own development as they both make sense of the world around them and master the linguistic means for communicating about it. Additionally, this second edition also sets the findings of the original study in the context of recent research in the sociocultural tradition inspired by Vygotsky's work and includes examples of effective teaching drawn from the author's recent collaborative research with teachers.

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In the first edition of The Meaning Makers, Gordon Wells used a wealth of observational data to demonstrate the importance of talk with adults for children's learning and development. The book worked especially well because it included the voices of the children and adults in its many illustrative examples. This new edition not only links the original analysis to recent research and contemporary educational issues, but also provides fascinating insights into the changing perspectives of a researcher over the span of a highly productive, international career.

* Neil Mercer, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge *

About Gordon Wells

Dr. Gordon Wells is currently Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he researches and teaches in the fields of: language, literacy, and learning; the analysis of classroom interaction; and sociocultural theory. As an educator, his particular interest is in fostering dialogic inquiry as an approach to learning and teaching at all levels, based on the work of Vygotsky and other sociocultural theorists. The rationale for this approach together with examples of it in practice are presented in Dialogic inquiry: Towards a Sociocultural Practice and Theory of Education (Cambridge University Press, 1999). From 1969 to 1984, he was the Director of the Bristol Study of Language Development at Home and at School, and from 1984 to 2000, he was a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, where he was involved in several collaborative action research projects with educational practitioners in Canada. Chief among these was a project entitled a Developing Inquiring Communities in Educationa (DICEP), which was funded by the Spencer Foundation. Books arising from this work are Constructing Knowledge Together (Heinemann, 1992), Changing Schools from Within (OISE Press and Heinemann, 1994), and Action, Talk and Text: Learning and Teaching through Inquiry, written with his DICEP teacher colleagues, (Teachers College Press, 2001). He is also co-editor of Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education (Blackwell, 2002).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Introduction

Notes on Transcription of Dialogue

Extracts

Chapter One The Children and Their Families

Chapter Two Learning to Talk: The Pattern of Development

Chapter Three Learning to Talk: The Construction of Language

Chapter Four Talking to Learn

Chapter Five From Home to School

Chapter Six Helping Children to Make Knowledge Their Own

Chapter Seven Differences between Children in Language and Learning

Chapter Eight The Centrality of Literacy

Chapter Nine The Children's Achievement at Age 10

Chapter Ten The Sense of Story

Chapter Eleven A Functional Theory of Language Development

Chapter Twelve Towards Dialogue in the Classroom

Chapter Thirteen The Interdependence of Practice and Theory

Epilogue

References

Additional information

GOR012469471
9781847691989
1847691986
The Meaning Makers: Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn by Gordon Wells
Gordon Wells
New Perspectives on Language and Education
Used - Like New
Paperback
Channel View Publications Ltd
20090818
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