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Direct linkHerriman, Michael – Teaching Education, 2005
In this essay I argue that when children come to school they are confronted by an intervention in their learning, and comprehension of the world in general, that contrasts with the experiences of learning that they have generated previously to make sense of their world. Prior to schooling, where learning is directed from outside, children have…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Metalinguistics, Prior Learning, Emergent Literacy
