Book Title: When Children Write
Subtitle: Critical Re-Visions of the Writing Workshop: 2nd Edition
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Book Description: Originally published in 1994, When Children Write both affirms the idea that children should be granted more control over their literate lives in schools and explores serious issues and challenges, for teachers and students, that accompany such increased control. An extended meditation on the possibilities and limits of progressive education, Lensmire’s groundbreaking study is now available open access and features a foreword written for the 2nd edition by Cynthia Lewis.
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In When Children Write: Critical Re-Visions of the Writing Workshop, Lensmire describes his
year of teaching writing with third graders, illuminating his text with stories and pictures
created by the children themselves. The writing workshop that Lensmire and his students
created featured students coming to voice in community with each other. It also featured the
disturbing reproduction, in their texts and ways of working and being with each other, of
gender and social class divisions and hierarchies. An extended meditation on the possibilities
and limits of progressive education, Lensmire’s groundbreaking study both affirms the idea that
children should be granted more control over their literate lives in schools and explores serious
issues and challenges, for teachers and students, that accompany such increased control.
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When Children Write Copyright © 2023 by Timothy J. Lensmire is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Subject
Language learning: writing skills
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When Children Write Copyright © 2023 by Timothy J. Lensmire is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Cover Art adapted from “children drawing a cat” by sammydavisdog is licensed under CC BY 2.0.