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A volume in Early Childhood Education Assembly Series Editor Vivian Vasquez, American University In classrooms where children's voices are valued, young readers and writers possess power. Their ability to exert this power through literacy is especially evident in classrooms where children, who are traditionally marginalized, can use their voices to be change agents. In this third volume of Perspectives and Provocations in Early Childhood Education, the authors' stories explore students' agentive power to change themselves, their teachers, school administrators, and the world.

Edited by Carol Branigan Felderman, American University; Brian Kissel, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; and Kindel Nash, University of Missouri, Kansas City A volume in Early Childhood Education Assembly Series Editor Vivian Vasquez, American University In classrooms where children's voices are valued, young readers and writers possess power. Their ability to exert this power through literacy is especially evident in classrooms where children, who are traditionally marginalized, can use their voices to be change agents. In this third volume of Perspectives and Provocations in Early...

Writing instruction has shifted in recent years to more accountability, taking the focus away from the writer. This book explores what happens when empowered writers direct the writing workshop. Through stories from real classrooms, Brian Kissel reveals that no matter where children come from, they all have the powerful, shared need to be heard.