1st Edition

Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation Perspectives from Finland and Beyond

Edited By Kristiina Kumpulainen, Julian Sefton-Green Copyright 2020
    228 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    228 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond brings together internationally renowned scholars to investigate and reflect upon the significance of introducing multiliteracies in the education of children (0–8 years old) and the challenge of enhancing professional development opportunities of early years practitioners.





    The book brings together curriculum innovation and reform and the changing media ecology of young children's learning lives in a single volume. It provides insights into Finnish early years education in terms of policy, practice, and research with a specific focus on the enhancement of children’s multiliteracies. Case studies from around the world explore co-developing practices between researchers and teachers, the development of communities and the ways in which different classroom interventions draw on new kinds of teacher knowledge.





    This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students with an interest in early years education, literacy education, the sociology of digital culture, school reform, teacher education, and comparative education.

    Contents

    List of illustrations

    List of contributors

    Acknowledgements

    1. Multiliteracies and early years innovation: Perspectives from Finland and beyond

      Kristiina Kumpulainen and Julian Sefton-Green

    2. Early years teachers’ work and play with multiliteracies

      Lisa Kervin and Barbara Comber

    3. Finnish teachers making sense of and promoting multiliteracies in early years education

      Heidi Sairanen, Jonna Kangas and Sara Sintonen

    4. Conceptualizing and recontextualizing child and teacher multiliteracy goals in digital video production

      Jessica Zacher Pandya

    5. Promoting young children’s scientific literacy as a dynamic practice

      Jenni Vartianen and Kristiina Kumpulainen

    6. Multiliteracies pedagogy promoting young children’s ecological literacy on climate change

      Chin-Chin Wong and Kristiina Kumpulainen

    7. Finding a space for a theory of multiliteracies: Librarians, boundary work, and definitions of literacy

      Rebekah Willett

    8. Making the Moomins: A Finnish/English adventure

      Jackie Marsh, Alexandra Nordström, Heidi Sairanen and Minna Shkul

    9. In transition to school: across vernacular and institutional multiliteracies

      Ola Erstad

    10. Positive affect in young children’s multiliteracies learning endeavors

      Alexandra Nordström, Kristiina Kumpulainen and John Potter

    11. Children’s Minecraft multiliteracy practices and learning through peer pedagogies

              Michael Dezuanni

    12. Conclusions: Future directions of multiliteracies scholarship and practice

             Kristiina Kumpulainen and Julian Sefton-Green

     

    Biography

    Kristiina Kumpulainen is Professor of Education and Scientific Director of the Playful Learning Center at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.





    Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Australia.