Shared territory : understanding children's writing as works / Margaret Himley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.

Introduction: Situating the Study, Mapping the Argument; The Child Making; 1. The Study of Works: A Phenomenological Approach to Understanding Children as Thinkers and Learners; 2. Deep Talk as Knowing; 3. A Reflective Conversation: "Tempos of Meaning"; The Person Speaking; 4. Bakhtin: Language as Hero in Early Written Language Development; 5. Thinking Seriously about Children Writing: Constructing an Object of Study; A Child Writing; 6. A Documentary Account of One Young Writer: Matthew Writing; Notes; References; Index; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.

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.

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