The International Handbook of Research in Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture presents an authoritative distillation of current global knowledge related to the field of primary years literacy studies.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• List of Reviewers
• Foreword
• Part I Society, Culture, and Community
• 1 Literacies in Homes and Communities - Kate Pahl, Cathy Burnett
• 2 Critical Multimodal Literacies: Synergistic Options and Opportunities - Margaret Mackey, Margaret Shane
• 3 Books, Toys, and Tablets: Playing and Learning in the Age of Digital Media - Helen Nixon, Erica Hateley
• 4 Literacy Education in the Age of New Media - Bill Green, Catherine Beavis
• 5 Connecting with Parents and the Community in an Urban Primary School: Creative Partnerships to Build Literacy/ies - Pat Thomson, Johanne Clifton
• 6 At Home and at School: Bridging Literacy for Children from Poor Rural or Marginalized Urban Communities - Celia R. Rosemberg, Alejandra Stein, Florencia Alam
• 7 Temporality, Trajectory, and Early Literacy Learning - Catherine Compton-Lilly
• 8 ‘This is a Job for Hazmat Guy!’: Global Media Cultures and Children's Everyday Lives - Victoria Carrington, Clare Dowdall
• 9 Literacy as Shared Consciousness: A Neurocultural Analysis - Alicia  Curtin, Kathy  Hall
• 10 An Ethnographic Long Look: Language and Literacy Over Time and Space in Alaska Native Communities - Perry Gilmore, Leisy Wyman
• 11 Understanding English Language Learners' Literacy from a Cultural Lens: An Asian Perspective - Guofang Li
• 12 Exploring Multiple Literacies from Homes and Communities: A Cross-cultural Comparative Analysis - Iliana Reyes, Moisés Esteban-Guitart
• 13 Funds of Knowledge in Changing Communities - Luis C. Moll, Sandra L. Soto-Santiago, Lisa Schwartz
• 14 The Hand of Play in Literacy Learning - Shirley Brice Heath
• Part II School, Culture, and Pedagogy
• 15 Building Word and World Knowledge in the Early Years - Susan B. Neuman
• 16 The Unfulfilled Pedagogical Promise of the Dialogic in Writing: Intertextual Writing Instruction for Diverse Settings - Rebecca Jesson, Judy Parr, Stuart McNaughton
• 17 Reading Engagement Research: Issues and Challenges - Sue Ellis, Cassandra S. Coddington
• 18 Opening the Classroom Door to Children's Literature: A Review of Research - Evelyn Arizpe, Maureen Farrell, Julie McAdam
• 19 Writing in Childhood Cultures - Anne Haas Dyson
• 20 Children's and Teachers' Creativity In and Through Language - Teresa Cremin, Janet Maybin
• 21 Educational Dialogues - Karen Littleton, Neil Mercer
• 22 Literacy and Curriculum: Language and Knowledge in the Classroom - Peter Freebody, Eveline Chan, Georgina Barton
• 23 The Digital Challenge - Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Guy Merchant
• 24 Digital Literacies in the Primary Classroom - Rachael Levy, Dylan Yamada-Rice, Jackie Marsh
• 25 Developing Online Reading Comprehension: Changes, Challenges, and Consequences - Bernadette Dwyer
• 26 Hybrid Literacies in a Post-hybrid World: Making a Case for Navigating - Elizabeth Birr Moje
• 27 Official Literacy Practices Co-construct Racialized Bodies: Three Key Ideas to Further Integrate Cultural and ‘Racially Literate’ Research - Karl Kitching
• 28 Emotional Investments and Crises of Truth: Gender, Class, and Literacies - Stephanie Jones, Kristy Shackelford
• 29 What Does Human Geography Have To Do With Classrooms? - Margaret Sheehy
• 30 Space, Place, and Power: The Spatial Turn in Literacy Research - Kathy A. Mills, Barbara Comber
• Part III Teachers, Culture, and Identity
• 31 On Becoming Teachers: Knowing and Believing - Jennifer I. Hathaway, Victoria J. Risko
• 32 Reforming How We Prepare Teachers to Teach Literacy: Why? What? How? - Brian Cambourne, Julie Kiggins
• 33 Teachers' Literate Identities - Toni Gennrich, Hilary Janks
• 34 Constructing a Collective Identity: Professional Development for Twenty-first Century Pedagogy - Catherine M. Weber, Taffy E. Raphael
• 35 Raising Literacy Achievement Levels through Collaborative Professional Development - Eithne Kennedy, Gerry Shiel
• 36 Teacher Research on Literacy: Turning Around to Students and Technology - Christopher S. Walsh, Barbara Kamler