BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:My place: Exploring children’s place-related identities through reading and writing - Gabrielle Cliff Hodges\, Pam Pointon &\; Emma Cha rlton DTSTART:20110126T170000Z DTEND:20110126T190000Z UID:TALK28047@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz DESCRIPTION:How do children perceive and represent their placed-related id entities through reading and writing? In what ways do children's responses to and creation of texts shape their place-related identities? And how ca n children’s representations of place-related identities be thought abou t? \n\nThe WRePlace project is an 18 month interdisciplinary project\, bas ed at Cambridge University Faculty of Education\, which aimed to consider children’s place-related identities through their engagement with\, and creation of\, texts. In this workshop we will discuss the project\, its in terdisciplinary theoretical framework\, and the empirical research we cond ucted with two year 5 classes in primary schools in Eastern England. \n\nA key text used in our research was My Place by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Ra wlins. This text is particularly apt because January 26th\, the date for t his workshop\, is Australia Day and My Place is set in Australia\, beginni ng before Europeans arrived in Australia and moving through over 200 years of time and place to 1988. \n\nDrawing on our interdisciplinary theoretic al framework\, particularly Doreen Massey’s notion of place as a bundle of trajectories \, Louise Rosenblatt’s notion of the transaction between the reader and the text\, and Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of the chronotop e\, participants will be invited to examine pages from My Place\, children talking about how this text connects with them\, children talking about t heir sense of place\, and maps the children produced of their place.\n LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, Donald McItyre Building\, 184 Hills Road\ , Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ room GS5 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR