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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.
Perspectives on Making Meaning: The Differential Principles and Means of Adults and Children
Perspectives on Making Meaning: The Differential Principles and Means of Adults and Children
Children come into the world with an absolute interest in meaning. To them, knowing what the world means is of more than academic interest. Yet even if they are born into a ‘literate society’, the technology of the script systems of their parents’ cultures is just one part of the vast web of meanings that makes up the world they will need to understand and learn to deal with. Nor is it a particularly focal part for them; it certainly has none of the overwhelming significance that it has for many of the adults around them; it is as important ...
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