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ToolsHACKETT, Abigail, BADWAN, Khawla, DOWER, Ruth Churchill, EHIYAZARYAN-WHITE, Ester, FARAH, Warda, FLEWITT, Rosie, KAREN, Grainger, HOLMES, Rachel, MACRAE, Christina, NAIR, Vishnu KK and SHANNON, David Ben (2025). The Rights of the Talker. In: BADWAN, Khawla, DOWER, Ruth Churchill, FARAH, Warda, FLEWITT, Rosie, HACKETT, Abigail, HOLMES, Rachel, MACRAE, Christina, NAIR, Vishnu and SHANNON, David Ben, (eds.) Language, Place, and the Body in Childhood Literacies. Expanding Literacies in Education Series . Routledge, 237-249. [Book Section]
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Abstract
In this short polemic chapter, the editors are inspired by Pennac’s Rights of the Reader to offer suggestions for a manifesto for the ‘Rights of the Talker’. The notion of ‘rights’ (whilst also problematised in this chapter) is used to unsettle the often unspoken rationale that intervening early to shape children’s language in narrow, controlled ways is benign because it is intended to secure their future educational success. As a counter, ‘Rights of the Talker’ makes the argument that all children should have the right to take their time, to remain silent, to make up words, to speak in all their languages, and to choose how and when they speak.
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