Book Review: Dyson, A. H. (1993). The social worlds of children learning to write in an urban primary school. New York: Teacher College Press.

To conclude, Dyson had clearly developed the research themes based on what she observed from the children’s literacy learning experiences to show how their worldviews were developed through their meaning-making negotiations and constructions with people around them. She was very deliberate and detailed in explaining the literacy world of children. She had done a very good job in associating children’s literate behaviors with Bakhtin’s concept of language as social dialogues Geertz’s concept of “imaginative universe”.