This fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how young children learn and how best to teach them. In particular it turns upside-down the commonly held belief that professionals know better than parents how to educate and bring up children; and it throws doubt on the theory that working-class children underachieve at school because of a language deficit at home. The second edition of this bestselling text includes a new introduction by Judy Dunn.

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• Fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how young children.
  
• Turns upside-down the commonly held belief that professionals know better than parents how to educate and bring up children.
  
• Throws doubt on the theory that working-class children underachieve at school because of a language deficit at home.
  
• The authors' evidence is the children's own conversations which are quoted extensively and are delightful.
  
• The second edition of this bestselling text includes an introduction by Judy Dunn.