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Abstract: 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.

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.

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Contributors:

Marsh, Jackie , editor

Larson, Joanne, 1956- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Literacy — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Children — Language — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Language arts (Early childhood) — Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Children

Literacy

Children — Language

Language arts (Early childhood)

Genres:

Handbooks and manuals

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (46 entries) : 53 images.

Call Numbers:

LB1139.L3 S344 2013eb

ISBNs:

9780857029249 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781784020514 (online)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2012930403 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

858878898

Other Control Numbers:

thg00908822 (source: CaBNVSL)
sageukearly2013 (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo9781784020514