Educating the Young Child: Constructing Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning through Arts-based Early Childhood Education

Narey, Marilyn

Making Meaning is a synthesis of theory, research, and practice that explicitly presents art as a meaning making process.

This book provokes readers to examine their current understandings of language, literacy and learning through the lens of the various arts-based perspectives offered in this volume; provides a starting point for constructing broader, multimodal views of what it might mean to “make meaning”; and underscores why understanding arts-based learning as a meaning-making process is especially critical to early childhood education in the face of narrowly-focused, test-driven curricular reforms. Each contributor integrates this theory and research with stories of how passionate teachers, teacher-educators, and pre-service teachers, along with administrators, artists, and professionals from a variety of fields have transcended disciplinary boundaries to engage the arts as a meaning-making process for young children and for themselves.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2008-11-21

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780387876900

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-87539-2

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 258