Full Description
Literacies in Early Childhood takes a deliberately eclectic approach to taking on new ideas about literacy teaching and learning in early childhood education, and challenges conventional thinking on new and returning debates about the 'best' way to teach early literacy.
The book is made up of four sections. Section 1 provides a balanced foundation for thinking about how literacy can be understood. Readers are provided with insight into a broad range of issues relevant to being a literacy teacher, and are invited to engage with different dimensions of the range of literacy repertoires required in today's times.
Section 2 considers notions of diversity by looking at issues including learning English as a second or additional language, early childhood programs for ATSI children, social justice in early childhood provision, and aspects of interculturalism.
In Section 3 the collection focuses specifically on the engagement of young children with pedagogy and the curriculum offered to them. This section includes a diverse selection of extracts and examples from research and practice. In the final section, the authors call literacy teachers to take up a position on what it means to learn literacy and teach literacy in today's contexts.
This collection is put forward not to provide definitive answers, but instead to open discussions in classrooms, lecture halls, and school staff rooms. Literacies in Early Childbood intends to be the impetus for much intellectual work toward providing quality and equity in literacy education across schools and early childhood education contexts.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTSPART 1: UNDERSTANDINGS OF LITERACY 1. Bringing Together What We Know about Literacy and Equity: A Discussion About What's ImportantAnnette Woods and Barbara Comber 2. 'I didn't know how to take it a step further': Teachers and Young Children Becoming CriticalKerryn Dixon and Hilary Janks 3. Reading and Viewing Children's Picture Books with Grammar in MindKylie Bradfield and Beryl Exley 4. Literacy as ProcessKaren Dooley 5. Putting the Jigsaw Together: Reading and the Teaching of Phonics in the Early YearsStacey Campbell 6. How We Live Now: Striving for Resilient Repertoires of LiteracyJennifer RowsellPART 2: TRANSITIONS, QUALITY AND EQUITY 7. 'It's much more than getting ready to go to school': Thinking About Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Learning LiteracyDixie Sarmardin, Rachel Leske, Annette Woods and Karen Thorpe 8. Early Years EAL/D Learners: Proficiencies, Trans-languaging and Pedagogic IdentitiesBeryl Exley, Cynthia Brock, Pauline Harris and Ufemia Camaitoga 9. Critiquing Literacy Intervention Solutions: What Can a Balanced Approach Tell Us?Louise Mercer 10. Diversity Goes to School: Ways Forward for Literacy Teaching in the Early YearsBeryl Exley & Kerry Taylor-LeechPART 3: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND THEORETICAL CONUNDRUMS 11. New Texts, New Kids, New Ways of Thinking: Engaging Young Children with Digital Texts in the HomeSusan Danby 12. Writing in the Early YearsNoella M. Mackenzie 13. Becoming a Reader in the Early YearsSusan Hill 14. Thinking about Mode in Becoming Literate: Oral and Visual Pathways to PrintGeorgina Barton 15. Using Multiliteracies as a Lens to Explore Young Children's Engagement with Multimodal TextsCynthia Brock and Pauline Harris 16. Playing with Literacy: Quality Literacy Opportunities in the Early YearsLisa Kervin and Irina Verenikina 17. Literacy Practices through Digital Making and PlayMichael Dezuanni 18. Assessment as Discursive Practice in the Early YearsAnthony Shearer and Val Klenowski PART 4: THE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL WORK OF LITERACY TEACHING 19. Academic Research and Public Debates: A Media Analysis of the Proposed Australian Phonics CheckAspa Baroutsis and Annette Woods 20. Spaces, Places, Bodies and Things: Sociomaterial Perspectives on Young Children's Literacy PracticesCathy Burnett and Karen Daniels 21. Learning Over Time: Rethinking DevelopmentCatherine Compton-Lilly22. Knowing Teaching through Researching and Reflecting on Practice Robyn Henderson
