Making Meaning: Constructing Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning Through Arts-Based Early Childhood Education 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Narey, Marilyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0387875379 ISBN-13: 9780387875378 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities - Education | Elementary - Education | Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten) |
Dewey: 372.5 |
LCCN: 2008938621 |
Series: Educating the Young Child |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.23 lbs) 258 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |