Critical literacy in early childhood education; artful story and the integrated curriculum.

9781433106125

Critical literacy in early childhood education; artful story and the integrated curriculum.

Quintero, Elizabeth P.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2009

195 pages

$32.95

Paperback

Rethinking childhood; v.44

LB1139

Quitero (education, California State U.) reports findings from a qualitative, five-year study documenting various groups of teacher education students' work as they journey through their own teacher development process in literacy and curriculum development work. The participants include teachers, student teachers, and their pupils from pre-K through grade 3. The educators document their own experiences as they apply a critical literacy framework for focusing on story and multicultural children's literature and creating literacy opportunities that extend beyond the classroom to use the words of their families and communities for literacy education. The study considers learners' multiple languages and recognizes ways that multiple knowledge sources, identities, and language forms can contribute to the formation of new relationships, new knowledge, and new meanings. No subject index.

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