A collection of expert voices on the theoretical frameworks and approaches for teaching literacy in the early childhood years.
Literacies in Early Childhood: Foundations for Equity and Quality is a rigorous and engaging foundational text that offers access to a broad range of voices and perspectives on quality literacy learning and teaching, and on how equity and literacy come together in education. It takes a deliberately balanced approach to literacy learning in early childhood education, and values the child as a learner and respects the teacher as a professional.
Structured across four parts, it aims to open discussion and encourage quality and equity in literacy education across schools and early childhood education contexts.
KEY FEATURES:
Literacies in Early Childhood: Foundations for Equity and Quality is a rigorous and engaging foundational text that offers access to a broad range of voices and perspectives on quality literacy learning and teaching, and on how equity and literacy come together in education. It takes a deliberately balanced approach to literacy learning in early childhood education, and values the child as a learner and respects the teacher as a professional.
Structured across four parts, it aims to open discussion and encourage quality and equity in literacy education across schools and early childhood education contexts.
- Part 1, Understandings of Literacy, provides a foundation for thinking about definitions of literacies.
- Part 2, Transitions, Quality and Equity, offers a range of theoretical tools and practical examples of how teachers, educators and diverse groups of students can work together.
- Part 3, Practical Considerations and Theoretical Conundrums, focuses on the engagement of young children in literacy learning, offering case studies and examples from contemporary research and practice.
- The final part, The Intellectual and Political Work of Literacy Teaching, analyses what it means to be a literacy teacher in today’s contexts.
KEY FEATURES:
- A broad coverage and range of expert voices draws together the best literacy researchers across early childhood and primary
- A multi-authored book allows for diverse perspectives on contemporary issues in literacy and education
- Covers the birth-8 age range providing balanced consideration of ECE and early primary with experts drawn from both fields
- Focuses on equity and social justice as key components of thinking about literacy teaching and learning
- Case studies provide real-world examples and help students make the theory to practice connection.
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