This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media, and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. Many young children have extensive experience of film, television, print media, computer games, mobile phones, and the Internet from birth, yet their reaction to media texts is rarely acknowledged in the national curricula of any country. This seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as: media and identity...
This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engag...
This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. Many young children have extensive experience of film, television, printed media, computer games, mobile phones and the Internet from birth, yet their reaction to media texts is rarely acknowledged in the national curricula of any country.
This seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as:
* media and...
This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children en...
This bold, forward-thinking text offers a clear rationale for the development of curricula and pedagogy that will reflect young people s in-school and out-of-school popular culture practices.
By providing a sound theoretical framework and addressing popular culture and new technologies in the context of literacy teacher education, this book marks a significant step forward in literacy teaching and learning. It takes a cross-disciplinary approach and brings together contributions from some of the world s leading figures in the field. Topics addressed include:
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This bold, forward-thinking text offers a clear rationale for the development of curricula and pedagogy that will reflect young people s in-school ...
Most children engage with a range of popular cultural forms outside of school. Their experiences with film, television, computer games and other cultural texts are very motivating, but often find no place within the official curriculum, where children are usually restricted to conventional forms of literacy.
This book demonstrates how to use children's interests in popular culture to develop literacy in the primary classroom. The authors provide a theoretical basis for such work through an exploration of related theory and research, drawing from the fields of education, sociology and...
Most children engage with a range of popular cultural forms outside of school. Their experiences with film, television, computer games and other cultu...
Most children engage with a range of popular cultural forms outside of school. Their experiences with film, television, computer games and other cultural texts are very motivating, but often find no place within the official curriculum, where children are usually restricted to conventional forms of literacy. This book demonstrates how to use children's interests in popular culture to develop literacy in the primary classroom. The authors provide a theoretical basis for such work through an exploration of related theory and research, drawing from the fields of education, sociology and cultural...
Most children engage with a range of popular cultural forms outside of school. Their experiences with film, television, computer games and other cultu...
Written for co-ordinators and for those who are intending to take on the subject leadership, this book addresses the issues of policy development, implementation and evaluation in primary English. The authors provide guidance on the central tasks of subject co-ordination.
Written for co-ordinators and for those who are intending to take on the subject leadership, this book addresses the issues of policy development, imp...
Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies. This edited collection focuses on children's digital cultures, specifically examining the role of play and creativity in learning with these new technologies.
The chapters in this book were contributed by an international range of respected researchers, who seek to extend our understandings of children's interactions with new media, both within and outside of school. They address and provide evidence for continuing debates around the...
Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies....
What are the ways in which young children learn to communicate? Collating their extensive experience of language and literacy in the early years, the contributors explore key aspects of this topic, linking practical ideas for early years settings and classrooms to relevant theory and research.
This second edition is updated to take into account important developments in research, policy and practice, and now covers the 0-8 age range. It also addresses developments in new media and the impact this has upon literacy in young children, and offers chapters on new areas which have...
What are the ways in which young children learn to communicate? Collating their extensive experience of language and literacy in the early years, the ...
As children's digital lives become more relevant to schools and educators, the question of play and learning is being revisited in new and interesting ways. Children's Virtual Play Worlds: Culture, Learning, and Participation provides a more reasoned account of children's play engagements in virtual worlds through a number of scholarly perspectives, exploring key concerns and issues which have come to the forefront. The global nature of the research in this edited volume embraces many different areas of study from school based research, sociology, cultural studies, psychology, to...
As children's digital lives become more relevant to schools and educators, the question of play and learning is being revisited in new and interesting...
This book provides an evaluation and appreciation of the learning, teaching and instruction that can occur in digital environments. Mass media accounts of digital culture are invariably predicated on a technologically determinist vision, on the one hand promoting a utopian view of the future while on the other fueling moral panic by emphasizing views of alienation and danger in life online. In this book, children, young people and those who work with them are revealed as active agents with possibilities to navigate new paths.
This book provides an evaluation and appreciation of the learning, teaching and instruction that can occur in digital environments. Mass media acco...
