Screen LibraryMultimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning in Early Childhood : The Creative and Critical "Art" of Making Meaning /
Our image-rich, media-dominated culture prompts critical thinking about how we educate young children. In response, this volume provides a rich and provocative synthesis of theory, research, and practice that pushes beyond monomodal constructs of teaching and learning. It is a book about bringing se...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Educating the Young Child, Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice ;
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44297-6 |
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Our image-rich, media-dominated culture prompts critical thinking about how we educate young children. In response, this volume provides a rich and provocative synthesis of theory, research, and practice that pushes beyond monomodal constructs of teaching and learning. It is a book about bringing sense to 21st century early childhood education, with sense as related to modalities (sight, hearing), and sense in terms of making meaning. It reveals how multimodal perspectives emphasize the creative, transformative process of learning by broadening the modes for understanding and by encouraging |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(xviii,330pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319442976 |
| Index Number: | LB1101 |
| CLC: | G61 |
| Contents: | Foreword; Mary Renck Jalongo -- Preface; Marilyn J. Narey -- Introduction -- 1. The Creative Art of Making Meaning; Marilyn J. Narey -- Part One: Beyond Words -- 2. Drawing to Learn; Margaret Brooks -- 3. Sacred Structures: Assembling Meaning, Constructing Self; James Haywood Rolling, Jr -- 4. Creating a Critical Multiliteracies Curriculum: Repositioning Art in the Early Childhood Classroom; Linda K. Crafton, Penny Silvers, and Mary Brennan -- 5. Drawing as a Relational Event: Making Meaning through Talk, Collaboration, and Image Production; Kristine E. Sunday -- Part Two: Contexts and Layer |