Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy by Nigel Hall

Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy by Nigel Hall

Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy

`No other publication that I am aware of brings together views from such diverse disciplines, contributing to a comprehensive statement about early childhood literacyThe Handbook not only reviews the current field of situated literacy but presents some important and exciting new research. It is a significant resource which promises to become a landmark text′ - Eve Bearne, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education

`This volume examines early literacy research on a global scale, and puts social, cultural and historical analyses in the front seat - without losing sight of individual and family-level matters in the process. It is comprehensive, ground-breaking, and provocative, and should help literacy researchers to think differently about the field′ - Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, USA

`This Handbook brings together an astonishing array of writers who explore contemporary political, cultural and cognitive understandings of early childhood literacy. Literacy and literacy acquisition are broadly defined here to encompass not just traditional notions of reading and writing, but multimodalities, multiliteracies, and critical literacies... It is rich and comprehensive, an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, and students of early childhood literacy′ - Elsa Auerbach, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts/Boston, USA

`This book is unique in its broad consideration of topics and its global focus... I particularly appreciate how the Editors have situated current research in an historical context. They have also included development issues, pedagogy, research, and the newest areas of interest - critical literacy and popular culture′ - Diane Barone, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Joanne Larson is Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education and Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum program at the University of Rochester’s Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, USA. She received her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. Larson’s ethnographic research examines how language and literacy practices mediate social and power relations in literacy events in schools and communities. She is currently collaborating with Rochester community residents on a participatory action research project examining changes associated with transforming a local corner store into a cornerstone of healthy living. Her book Radical Equality in Education: Starting Over in US Schooling (Routledge, 2014) makes the case for beginning with assumptions of equality instead of inequality in education. She is the editor of Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix, Second Edition (Lang, 2007) and co-editor with Jackie Marsh of Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy (Sage, 2013). Larson′s journal publications include research articles in Research in the Teaching of English; Written Communication: Linguistics and Education; Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, and Discourse and Society. Jackie Marsh is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she conducts research on young children′s play and digital literacy practices in homes, communities and early years settings and primary schools. Her most recent publications include Changing Play: Play, Media and Commercial Culture from the 1950s to the Present Day (with Bishop, 2014) and Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy (edited with Larson, 2013). Jackie is an editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.

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ISBN 13	9780761974376
ISBN 10	0761974377
Title	Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy
Author	Nigel Hall
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2003-10-18
Number of pages	464
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