Making Meaning Constructing Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Lit

Making Meaning: Constructing Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning through Arts-based Early Childhood Education, is a synthesis of theory, research, and practice that explicitly presents art as a meaning making process. Respected edu

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Making Meaning Constructing Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning through Arts-based Early Childhood Education

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Making Meaning

Marilyn Narey Editor

Making Meaning Constructing Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning through Arts-based Early Childhood Education

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Editor Dr. Marilyn Narey East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania 256 Baywood Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15228-1310 USA [email protected]

ISBN: 978-0-387-87537-8 (hardcover)

e-ISBN: 978-0-387-87539-2

ISBN: 978-0-387-87690-0 (softcover) Library of Congress Control Number: 2008938621

© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now know or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if the are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper springer.com

Contents

Foreword……………………………………………………………………..… vii Mary Renck Jalongo Introduction…………………………………………………………...………… 1 Marilyn J. Narey Part One

Beyond Words

Chapter 1

Drawing to Learn……………………………………………...….. 9 Margaret Brooks

Chapter 2

Creating a Critical Multiliteracies Curriculum: Repositioning Art in the Early Childhood Classroom……...… 31 Linda K. Crafton, Penny Silvers, and Mary Brennan

Chapter 3

Researching Literacy with Young Children’s Drawings……… 53 Maureen E. Kendrick and Roberta A. McKay

Chapter 4

Studio Thinking in Early Childhood………...…………….…… 71 Kimberly Sheridan

Part Two

Contexts and Layered Texts

Chapter 5

The In Depth Approach: Young Children’s Artistic Learning in the Context of Museum Environments and Other Cultural Settings.………………………………….... 91 Eli Trimis and Andri Savva

Chapter 6

A Circle of Friends: Re-envisioning Art Learning and Individual Difference in the Classroom…………………......... 117 Paula G. Purnell

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Contents

Chapter 7

Multiple Modes of Communication of Young Brazilian Children: Singing, Drawing, and English Language Learning………………………………………………………… 133 Sharon Cecile Switzer

Chapter 8

The Heart of the Arts: Fostering Young Children’s Ways of Knowing………………………………………………. 153 Patricia T. Whitfield

Part Three Visions Chapter 9

Empowering Pre-service Teachers to Design a Classroom Environment that Serves as a Third Teacher………………... 169 Katherina Danko-McGhee and Ruslan Slutsky

Chapter 10 Rewiring and Networking Language, Literacy, and Learning through the Arts: Developing Fluencies with Technology……………………………………………..… 187 Lynn Hartle and Candace Jaruszewicz Chapter