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This new edition of the much-loved Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy has been revised and updated to retain its cutting-edge focus on emergent and important areas of research. This comprehensive and ground-breaking work guides the reader through current social, cultural and historical analysis on a global scale. The new edition contains a greater range of methodologies, and chapters on: - Space and literacy - Disabilities and early childhood literacy - Digital literacies - Indigenous literacy - Play and literacy - Policy In the Handbook, readers will find coverage of all the key topics in early childhood literacy, including perspectives; literacy in families, communities and cultures; making meaning; literacy in preschool settings and schools, and various research methodologies. The exceptional list of contributors offers in-depth expertise in their respective areas of knowledge. This Handbook is essential for BA QTS students; MEd in Literacy students; PhD students; undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD students; researchers, and literacy-centre personnel. Anyone involved in Early Years education and teaching reading and writing will find it illuminating.
Artifactual Literacies
Artifactual Literacies
My favourite object is probably a tiny little baby gro, this big.
When I had my little girl, she was only two pounds
so her babygro fit her Barbie doll now, (ohh)
despite the fact she is now fourteen
and I can't believe she ever was that small
but it reminds me of her
(a class teacher describing her special object on first day of the My Family My Story project, from Pahl and Rowsell, 2010)
This quote comes from a research study called My Family, My Story and it highlights a core theme in the chapter, which is the artifactually mediated cultural worlds of children (Pahl and Rowsell, 2010). We draw on research in homes and communities to present a picture of early childhood literacy that ...
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