Literacies In Childhood: Changing Views, Challenging Practice

by Makin, Laurie, Ph.D.; Diaz, Criss Jones; McLachlan, Claire

• ISBN13: 9780729537834
• ISBN10: 0729537838
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-18
• Publisher: Brookes Pub

Summary

Bestselling early childhood text reaffirms a 'literacy as social practice' philosophy, alongside a balanced discussion of phonics and the principles of emergent literacy.

Table of Contents

Frameworks for thinking about literacy	p. 1
Surveying the landscape	p. 3
Emergent literacy	p. 15
Literacy as social practice	p. 31
Understanding literacy pedagogy in and out of school	p. 43
Multiliteracies: towards the future	p. 56
Children's worlds: globalisation and critical literacy	p. 71
Pathways to literacy	p. 87
Many roads through many modes: becoming literate in childhood	p. 89
Literacy transitions	p. 104
Young children using language to negotiate their social worlds	p. 118
Multiple ways of making meaning: children as writers	p. 133
Reading contexts and practices in the childhood years	p. 153
Multiliteracies and the arts	p. 168
Literacy assessment: understanding and recording meaningful data	p. 183
Multiliteracies and diversity	p. 201
Other words, other worlds: bilingual identities and literacy	p. 203
Doing it 'proper': the case of Maori literacy	p. 217
Indigenous literacies: moving from social construction towards social justice	p. 230
Literacy for all? Young children and special literacy learning needs	p. 243
Literacy and gender in childhood contexts: moving the focus	p. 257
Conclusion: new pathways in childhood literacies	p. 272
Index	p. 282
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