Literacies in childhood
Subtitle: changing views, challenging practice
By: edited by Laurie Makin, Criss Jones Díaz, Claire McLachlan
Contributors: Jones-Diaz, Criss
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Elsevier Australia
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Marrickville, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780729537834
Subjects: Literacy; Study and teaching (Primary); Study and teaching (Preschool); Study and teaching (Early childhood)
Notes: Previous ed.: Literacies in early childhood, Eastgardens, N.S.W. : MacLennan + Petty, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Surveying the landscape / Laurie Makin; title: Emergent literacy / Claire McLachlan; title: Literacy as social practice / Criss Jones Díaz; title: Understanding literacy pedagogy in and out of school / Barbara Comber and Jo-Anne Reid; title: Multiliteracies: towards the future / Susan Hill; title: Children's worlds: globalisation and critical literacy / Criss Jones Díaz, Bronwyn Beecher and Leonie Arthur; title: Many roads through many modes: becoming literate in childhood / Julie Martello; title: Literacy transitions / Anne Kennedy and Lynne Surman; title: Young children using language to negotiate their social worlds / Susan Danby and Christina Davidson; title: Multiple ways of making meaning: children as writers / Caroline Barratt-Pugh; title: Reading contexts and practices in the childhood years / Pauline Harris; title: Multiliteracies and the arts / Laurie Makin and Peter Whiteman; title: Literacy assessment: understanding and recording meaningful data / Alma Fleet and Jane Torr; title: Other words, other worlds: bilingual identities and literacy / Criss Jones Díaz and Nola Harvey; title: Doing it 'proper': the case of Māori literacy / Margie Hohepa and Stuart McNaughton; title: Indigenous literacies: moving from social construction towards social justice / Wendy Hanlen; title: Literacy for all? Young children and special literacy learning needs / Margaret McNaught; title: Literacy and gender in childhood contexts: moving the focus / Nola Alloway; title: New pathways in childhood literacies / Laurie Makin.