Researching early childhood literacy in the classroom : literacy as a social practice / Lucy Henning.

This volume demonstrates how the ethnographic approach to research demanded by a Literacy as Social Practice' perspective can generate fresh insights into what happens when young children engage with schooled literacy tasks. Researching Early Childhood Literacy in the Classroom argues that the...

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Main Author: Henning, Lucy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge research in literacy.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I Fresh Perspectives on Familiar Phenomena
  • 1 Thinking About Literacy, Schools and Children; Introduction; Section 1: Literacy in the Social World; Section 2: Literacy in the Institution of Schooling; Section 3: Children's Interpretive Reproduction of Literacy in Schools; Conclusion
  • 2 Researching Young Children's In-School Literacy Practices; Introduction; Section 1: Policy Priorities for Researching Early Childhood Literacy; Section 2: Ethnographic Principles for Researching Early Childhood Literacy in Classrooms; Section 3: Re-Examining Young Children's In-School Literacy Practices; Conclusion
  • PART II Amber Class Children Practise Literacy
  • 3 Jessica Practises Literacy With Donna; Introduction; Section 1: Normalising Expectations for Young Children's Literacy Practices; Section 2: Interpretively Reproducing Literacy Practices in the Classroom; Section 3: Interpretively Reproducing Literacy Skills and Knowledge; Conclusion
  • 4 The Importance of Amber Class' Children's In-Class Peer Culture 97 Introduction; Section 1: Producing Peer Culture Literacy in Social Interaction; Section 2: Managing Peer Culture Priorities: Peer-to Peer-Copying; Section 3: Managing Peer Culture and Schooled Literacy Priorities; Conclusion
  • 5 Amber Class Children's Encounter With Being Grouped for Teaching; Introduction; Section 1: Schooled Literacy Manages Relative Literacy Expertise; Section 2: Peer Culture Interpretations of Schooled Groupings; Section 3: Sharing Literacy Expertise in the Peer Culture; Conclusion
  • PART III Discussion and Conclusions; Discussion: Reflecting on Young Children, Schooling and Literacy.