Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781032089690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Kristiina Kumpulainen; Julian Sefton-Green

Opis

Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond brings together internationally renowned scholars to investigate and reflect upon the significance of introducing multiliteracies in the education of children and the challenge of enhancing professional development opportunities of early years practitioners

Spis treści

1. Multiliteracies and early years innovation: Perspectives from Finland and beyond.  2. Early years teachers’ work and play with multiliteracies.  3. Finnish teachers making sense and promoting multiliteracies in early years education.  4. Conceptualizing and recontextualizing child and teacher multiliteracy goals in digital video production.  5. Promoting young children’s scientific literacy as a dynamic practice.  6. Multiliteracies pedagogy promoting young children’s ecological literacy on climate change.  7. Finding a space for a theory of multiliteracies: Librarians, boundary work, and definitions of literacy.  8. Making the Moomins: A Finnish/English adventure.  9. In transition to school: Across vernacular and institutional multiliteracies.  10. Positive affect in young children’s multiliteracies learning endeavors.  11. Children’s Minecraft multiliteracy practices and learning through peer pedagogies.  12. Conclusions: Future directions of multiliteracies scholarship and practice.

O autorze

Kristiina Kumpulainen is Professor of Education and Scientific Director of the Playful Learning Center at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Australia.