Popular culture, new media and digital literacy in early childhood / edited by Jackie Marsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marsh, Jackie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media in education.

Media literacy.

Early childhood education.

Popular culture.

Child development.

Physical Description:

xiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2005.

Summary:

This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media, and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. Many young children have extensive experience of film, television, print media, computer games, mobile phones, and the Internet from birth, yet their reaction to media texts is rarely acknowledged in the national curricula of any country. This seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as: media and identity construction; media literacy practices in the home; the changing nature of literacy in technologized societies; and the place of popular and media texts in children's lives and the use of such texts in the curriculum.

Contents:

Introduction : children of the digital age / Jackie Marsh

New textual landscapes, information and early literacy / Victoria Carrington

Ritual, performance and identity construction : young children's engagement with popular cultural and media texts / Jackie Marsh

Verónica : an asset model of becoming literate / Muriel Robinson and Bernardo Turnbull

Bilingual children's uses of popular culture in text-making / Charmian Kenner

Watching Teletubbies : television and its very young audience / Susan Roberts and Susan Howard

The CD-ROM game : a toddler engaged in computer-based dramatic play / Cynthia R. Smith

Narrative spaces and multiple identities : children's textual explorations of console games in home settings / Kate Pahl

'Pronto, chi parla? (hello, who is it?') : telephones as artefacts and communication media in children's discourses / Julia Gillen ... [et al.]

Popular culture : views of parents and educators / Leonie Arthur

Barbie meets Bob the builder at the workstation : learning to write on screen / Guy Merchant

Resistance, power-tricky, and colorless energy : what engagement with everyday popular culture texts can teach us about learning, and literacy / Vivian Vasquez

Behind the scenes : making movies in early years classrooms / Helen Nixon and Barbara Comber.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415335728

0415335736

OCLC:

54461875