Book chapter
Approaches to early literacy development from a multiliteracies standpoint: A case study of Aboriginal supported playgroups
The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education, pp.453-468
SAGE Publications Ltd
2019
Abstract
Our research examines early literacy development in a case study of five Aboriginal supported playgroups in Western Australia. Our discussion centres around the meaning of literacy in the twenty-first century, with particular emphasis on pedagogies for multiliteracies. Multiliteracies is understood in this research to align closely with Malaguzzi’s Hundred Languages of Children (Malaguzzi, 1998). We focus on meaning-making for young Indigenous1 children and their families who participated in supported playgroups. We provide an overview of the literature specifically concerned with multiliteracies and offer a critique of various approaches to early literacy learning that, we will argue, constrain rather than enhance children’s literacy acquisition.
Details
- Title
- Approaches to early literacy development from a multiliteracies standpoint: A case study of Aboriginal supported playgroups
- Authors/Creators
- L. Lee-Hammond (Author/Creator)S. Hesterman (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- D. Whitebread (Editor)V. Grau (Editor)K. Kumpulainen (Editor)M.M. McClelland (Editor)N.E. Perry (Editor)D. Pino-Pasternak (Editor)
- Publication Details
- The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education, pp.453-468
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Identifiers
- 991005545173007891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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