Children’s Negotiation of Meaning

In this article Mandell explores an aspect of children’s worlds not dealt with in previous articles: the ways that children interact with one another when they are together. Her particular concern is with identifying and describing the ways that children negotiate meaning, i.e. work together to figure out what is going on, both from their own perspective and that of others. The negotiation of meaning involves taking account of others in the social worlds that they inhabit together.