Reclaiming Early Childhood Literacies

Name: Reclaiming Early Childhood Literacies
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138944381
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Reclaiming Early Childhood Literacies challenges the political framing of literacy by centring young children in their diverse literacy experiences. It explores inclusive and expanded notions of literacy that encompass technology, arts, and multiple modalities, emphasising teaching for democracy, cultural sustainability, and social justice.

The book highlights children’s rights to engage playfully with various literacies to understand their world, the role of adults in fostering awareness, the importance of meaning making in language development, and respect for diverse identities and texts.
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Ideal for educators, researchers, and policymakers interested in early childhood education, literacy development, and inclusive pedagogical approaches that support social justice and diversity.

Description

At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, Reclaiming Early Childhood Literacies refocuses attention on work with young children that places them at the centre of their literacy worlds.

Drawing on robust and growing knowledge which is often marginalised because of political and legislative forces, it explores young children’s literacies as inclusive, redefined, and broadened—encompassing technologies, the arts, multiple modalities, and teaching and learning for democracy, cultural sustainability, and social justice.

Highlighted themes include children’s rights to grow through playful engagements with multiple literacies to interrogate their worlds; adults who expand and inspire children’s consciousness and awareness of others and the world around them; the centrality of meaning making in all aspects of language and literacy development; a deep respect for diversities, including languages, cultures, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and more; and an expansive understanding of the nature of texts.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138944381

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 September 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 3 Tables, black and white; 34 Halftones, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Kathryn F. Whitmore
Edited by Richard J Meyer

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 430g

Pages: 290

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Richard J. Meyer is a Regents’ Professor and Chair of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico, USA.

Kathryn F. Whitmore holds the Ashland/Nystrand Chair of Early Childhood Research and is Director of the Early Childhood Research Center at the University of Louisville, USA.