ED475381 PS031201
Title: Literacies in Early Childhood: Changing Views Challenging
Practice.
Author(s): Makin, Laurie; Diaz, Criss Jones
Pages: 341
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0-86433-162-2
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Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020)
Geographic Source: Australia; New South Wales
Journal Announcement: RIENOV2003
Acknowledging that young children's early understandings about
literacy occur within their cultural and linguistic communities, the
book compiles articles challenging traditional views of literacy and
suggesting positive new practices. Each chapter includes "reflection"
and "followup" sections that reinforce the link between theory and
practice, and actual examples of children's dialogue, artwork, and
writing highlight the literary messages conveyed. The articles are as
follows: (1) "Literacy as Social Practice" (Criss Jones Diaz and
Laurie Makin); (2) "Theoretical Perspectives in Early Literacy
Education: Implications for Practice" (Jo-Anne Reid and Barbara
Comber); (3) "Many Roads through Many Modes: Becoming Literate in
Early Childhood" (Julie Martello); (4) "Language and Social Practices:
Everyday Talk Constructing School-Literate Practices" (Susan
Danby);(5) "Literacy Transitions" (Laurie Makin with Sue Groom); (6)"Children as Writers" (Caroline Barratt-Pugh); (7) "Children as
Readers" (Pauline Harris); (8) "Authentic Literacy Assessment" (Alma
Fleet and Vanna Lockwood); (9) "Building on Home and Community
Experiences in Early Childhood Education" (Julie Spreadbury); (10) "Other Words, Other Worlds: Bilingual Identities and Literacy" (Criss
Jones Diaz and Nola Harvey); (11) "Indigenous Literacies: The Case of
Maori Literacy" (Margie Hohepa and Stuart McNaughton); (12) "Indigenous Literacies: Moving from Social Construction towards Social
Justice" (Wendy Hanlen); (13) "Literacy for All? Young Children and
Special Literacy Learning Needs" (Margaret McNaught); (14) "Literacy
and Gender in the Early Childhood Context: Boys on the Side?" (Nola
Alloway and Pam Gilbert); (15)"Technoliteracy and the Early Years"
(Susan Hill with Donna Broadhurst); (16) "Literacy, Music and the
Visual Arts" (Laurie Makin and Peter Whiteman); (17) Children's
Worlds and Critical Literacy" (Criss Jones Diaz, Bronwyn Beecher, and
Leonie Arthur); and (18) "New Pathways for Literacy in Early Childhood
Education" (Laurie Makin and Criss Jones Diaz). Each of the articles
contains references. (HTH)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading; Beginning Writing; Context Effect;
Cultural Influences; Developmental Stages; Early Childhood
Education; *Early Experience; *Emergent Literacy; Indigenous
Populations; *Literacy; *Literacy Education; *Preschool Children;
Sex Differences; Theory Practice Relationship
