Children's Inquiry: Using Language to Make Sense of the World
Author(s): Judith Wells Lindfors
This fascinating exploration of children's inquiry will help teacher educators and elementary teachers to understand, appreciate, and foster children's inquiry in classrooms. Lindfors introduces a theoretical framework for understanding children's inquiry language—as communication acts in which the child brings another into the act of sense-making—and uncovers new possibilities for our understanding of how children learn. The text features transcripts from homes and classrooms, class exercises, research findings, and the author's own reflections.
Teachers College Press and NCTE. 274 pp. 1999. Grades K–5. ISBN 0-8077-3836-0.
No. 06366
ISBN: 0-8077-3836-0
Grade Level(s): Elementary
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