The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy

Editor/Author Larson, Joanne and Marsh, Jackie
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Sage UK

Single-User Purchase Price: $176.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $264.00
ISBN: 978-0-85702-924-9
Category: Language & Literature - Linguistics
Image Count: 53
Book Status: Available
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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.

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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • International Advisory Board
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface
  • Part 1 Perspectives on Early Childhood Literacy
  • 1 The Emergence of Early Childhood Literacy - Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall
  • 2 Postcolonial Perspectives on Early Childhood Literacy - Radhika Viruru
  • 3 Gender and Early Childhood Literacy - Elaine Millard and Petula Bhojwani
  • 4 Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Literacy: The Sociocultural Influence and New Directions in Digital and Hybrid Mediation - Aria Razfar and Kris D. Gutiérrez
  • 5 Play, Literacies, and the Converging Cultures of Childhood - Karen E. Wohlwend
  • 6 Policy-Making in Early Childhood Literacy: Pathways to Equity for All Children - Cecilia Rios-Aguilar
  • 7 Disability and Early Childhood: The Importance of Creating Literacy Opportunities and Identities - Martha Mock and Susan Hildenbrand
  • Part 2 Early Childhood Literacy in Families, Communities, and Cultures across Media and Modes
  • 8 Researching Young Children's Out-of-School Literacy Practices - Tamara Spencer, Michele Knobel, and Colin Lankshear
  • 9 The Out-of-School Schooling of Literacy - Eve Gregory and Charmian Kenner
  • 10 Agency, Authority, and Action in Family Literacy Scholarship: An Analysis of the Epistemological Assumptions Operating in Family Literacy Scholarship - Catherine Compton-Lilly and Beth Graue with Rebecca Rogers and Tisha Y. Lewis
  • 11 Research Issues in Family Literacy - Greg Brooks and Peter Hannon
  • 12 Early Childhood Literacy and Popular Culture - Jackie Marsh
  • 13 Film and Television - Muriel Robinson and Margaret Mackey
  • 14 Critical Indigenous Literacies - Debbie Reese
  • 15 Artifactual Literacies - Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell
  • 16 Space, Place and Early Childhood Literacy - Sue Nichols and Helen Nixon
  • 17 Multimodal Perspectives on Early Childhood Literacies - Rosie Flewitt
  • Part 3 Early Moves in Literacy
  • 18 Moving into Literacy: How it all Begins - Lesley Lancaster
  • 19 Perspectives on Making Meaning: The Differential Principles and Means of Adults and Children - Gunther Kress
  • 20 Reading Policy: Evidence versus Power - Gerald Coles
  • 21 Becoming Biliterate - Charmian Kenner and Eve Gregory
  • 22 Early Reading Development - Dominic Wyse and Usha Goswami
  • 23 Young Children's Literary Meaning Making: A Decade of Research 2000-2010 - Caitlin McMunn Dooley, Miriam Martinez, and Nancy L. Roser
  • 24 Textbooks and Early Childhood Literacy - Allan Luke, Victoria Carrington, and Cushla Kapitzke
  • 25 Recent Trends in Research on Young Children's Authoring - Deborah Wells Rowe
  • 26 The Development of Spelling - Patricia L. Scharer and Jerry Zutell
  • Part 4 Literacy in Preschool Settings and Schools
  • 27 The Place of Childhoods in School Writing Programs: A Matter of Ethics - Anne Haas Dyson
  • 28 Talk and Discourse in Formal Learning Settings - Joanne Larson and Shira M. Peterson
  • 29 Effective Literacy Teaching in the Early Years of School: A Review of Evidence - Kathy Hall
  • 30 Creating Positive Literacy Learning Environments in Early Childhood: Engaging Classrooms, Creating Lifelong Readers, Writers and Thinkers - Eithne Kennedy
  • 31 Towards Knowing Well and Doing Well: Assessment and Early Childhood Education - Sharon Murphy
  • 32 Learning, Literacies and New Technologies: The Current Context and Future Possibilities - Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant
  • 33 Critical Literacy in the Early Years: Emergence and Sustenance in an Age of Accountability - Barbara Comber
  • Part 5 Researching Early Childhood Literacy
  • 34 Methodologies in Research on Young Children and Literacy - David Bloome, Laurie Katz, Huili Hong, Patricia May-Woods and Melissa Wilson
  • 35 Methodologies of Early Childhood Research - Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Karisa Peer