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Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Harvard Educational Review, 1996
Describes children's participating in dramatic play activities that are teacher or peer governed. Illustrates children's use of cultural symbols as material for story construction and social affiliation. Argues for a literacy curriculum in which cultural symbols are open to critical examination. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Children, Dramatic Play, Ethnography, Mass Media
Dyson, Anne Haas – 1997
Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of 7- to 9-year olds, this book examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literary curriculum. In one sense, the book is about children "writing superheroes"--about children…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Childrens Writing, Dramatic Play, Ethnography
