Go Be a Writer! - Expanding the Curricular Boundaries of Literacy Learning With Children

This book provides an introduction to poststructural and posthumanist theories in order to imagine new possibilities for expanding literacy education. The authors put to work these theories in the context of an elementary school classroom, examining literacy-based activities that occur as students participate with materials in a multimedia writers’ studio. Focusing on literacy processes, the book emphasizes the fluid and sometimes unintentional ways multimodal artifacts come into being through intra-actions with human and nonhuman materials. Because these theories emphasize the unplanned, nonlinear aspects of literacy, the authors demonstrate an approach to literacy that works against the grain of standardization and rigid curricular models. Go Be a Writer! reveals that when educators appreciate the value of unscripted intra-actions they allow for more authentic learning.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Candace R. Kuby is assistant professor of early childhood education at the University of Missouri. Tara Gutshall Rucker is a public elementary school teacher in Columbia, Missouri.

Zusammenfassung

Provides an introduction to poststructural and posthumanist theories in order to imagine new possibilities for expanding literacy education. The authors put to work these theories in the context of an elementary school classroom, examining literacy-based activities that occur as students participate with materials in a multimedia writers’ studio.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Candace R Kuby, Candace R. Kuby, Candace R./ Rucker Kuby, Tara Gutshall Rucker
• Verlag: Teachers College Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780807757758
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5775-8
• Seiten: 256
• Serien: Language and Literacy; Language and Literacy; Language & Literacy; Language & Literacy Series
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft