International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture - Hardcover

The International Handbook of Research in Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture presents a careful distillation of the current research in the field of primary years literacy studies. Well known contributors critically review and synthesize seminal studies on various themes, offer fresh perspectives and conceptualizations, and point to new directions for further investigation and study. Chapters vividly illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary educational thinking and research on literacy by offering perspectives from a wide range of disciplines—from aesthetics and anthropology to cultural psychology and curriculum theory.

Literacy topics are addressed in three sections, namely ‘society, culture, and community’, ‘school, culture, and pedagogy’, and ‘teachers, culture, and identity’. In presenting cutting-edge knowledge on all aspects of literacy learning in the primary/elementary school years, the International Handbook of Research in Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture provides an essential resource for scholars, educators, and researchers in charting the future of the increasingly important field of literacy in the 21st century.

Kathy Hall is Professor of Education at University College Cork. She is co-editor of Learning and Practice: Culture and Identities (2008) and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read: Culture, Cognition and Pedagogy (2010), and co-author of Loris Malaguzzi and the Reggio Emilia Experience (2010).

Teresa Cremin is a Professor of Education (Literacy) in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University. She is co-author of Writing Voices: Creating Communities of Writers (2012) and co-editor of Creative Learning 3-11 (2008).

Barbara Comber is a Research Professor in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology. She is co-editor of The Hawke Legacy: Towards a Sustainable Society (2009) and Literacies in Place: Teaching Environmental Communication (2007).

Luis C. Moll is Professor in the Language, Reading and Culture Program of the College of Education, University of Arizona. He is co-editor of Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms (2005), which received the 2006 Critics’ Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association.