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- Title
Children's Presentational Self in Their Personal Stories: An Exploration of 3rd Grade Students' Writings from a Semiotic Perspective.
- Authors
Komatsu Koji; Konno Chieri
- Abstract
This study investigated elementary school students' personal stories which were written as a homework assignment, with a specific focus on children's selves. We considered the child's self not as internal entity but as what emerges from meaning construction by children. The discussion was based on Komatsu's (2010, 2012) theoretical framework of the presentational self, as derived from the theory of semiotic mediation (Valsiner, 2007). Third graders (N=26) wrote 632 stories over a ten month period, and mainly described their experiences at home and in their neighborhoods, or their trips to various destinations. Twelve stories by four children were selected for a discussion of the emergence of children 's selves. The analysis showed that several types of meaning construction which develop from the description of events in sequential order (which is common in children's writings) bring about the reader's awareness of the writer's self as observable in writing. In addition, children's descriptions of others in their stories appear to be important for the clarification of their selves.
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology / Hattatsu Shinrigaku Kenkyū, 2014, Vol 25, Issue 3, p323
- ISSN
0915-9029
- Publication type
Article