Editor: Viv Edwards (University of Reading, UK)
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Volume: 11 Number: 2 Page: 77–95
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Literature for School: Theorising the `Child' in Talk and Text
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Helena Austin
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... ... childhood is not merely a natural state, for as well as being a stage of physical development it is also a social institution. It has not been defined or experienced in the same way s
and at all times (Jackson, 1982: 22). Child and childhood are historical and cultural specificities. This paper is part of a larger study which aims to retrieve the versions of the child impe
everyday life of a literature classroom. A children s novel Magpie Island (Thiele, 1974) and the classroom talk about that novel are here interrogated for the versions of the child and childy
enact and imply. The ethnomethodological state of mind is employed along with the interpretive insights available through conversation analysis. It transpires that the version of the child ie
novel and that enacted in the classroom talk are different and that this has consequences for the interpretive possibilities available to the students in the literature classroom.
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