Full Description
This book takes on current perspectives on children's relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children's media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared visions of communities that we collectively imagine, including play, media, gender, family, school, or cultural worlds. It draws upon elements of ethnographies of globalization, nexus analysis and performance theories to examine the convergences of such imaginaries across multiple sites: early childhood and elementary classrooms and communities in Puerto Rico and the Midwest United States. In this work we attempt to understand that the local moment of engagement within play, dramatic experiences, and literacies is not a given but is always emerging from and within the multiple localities children navigate and the histories, possibilities and challenges they bring to the creative moment.
Contents
Part I: Literacy Research within Multisited Imaginaries and Converging Worlds 1. Global Networks, Cultural Production, and Literacy Practices 2. Understanding Multisited Imaginaries in Literacy Research Part II: Mapping Multisited Imaginaries in Literacy Research 3. Mapping Global Markets in Local Communities: Studying Cultural Chapter Four: Cultural Production of Telenovelas Dramatic Worlds Carmen Liliana Medina with María del Rocío del Costa 5. Cultural Production of Disney Princess Play Worlds Karen E. Wohlwend 6. Convergences and Slippages in Children's Improvisations and Teachers' Pedagogical Imaginaries Part III: Convergences in Collective Cultural Imaginaries 7. Participation, Scripting, and Embodiment in Children's Collective Imaginaries 8. Globalization, Imagination, and the Possibilities of Agency 9. Literacy, Play, and Globalization in Teacher Education
