Changing Views, Challenging Practice, Second Edition

Edited by Laurie Makin, Ph.D., Criss Jones Díaz, M.A., & Claire McLachlan, Ph.D.

When future early childhood educators understand all the social, environmental, and cultural factors that affect literacy, they'll enter the classroom better prepared to teach young children. That big-picture view of emergent literacy is just what they'll get with the second edition of this easy-to-read text. Preservice teachers of children from birth to age 8 will examine the complex, multifaceted process of literacy learning, exploring the intersecting influences of social identities such as gender, language, race, and class; technology such as computers and television; and partnerships between the many teachers in a child's life.

Firmly grounded in practice and reliable research, this fully updated edition is filled with timely revisions that reflect the needs and experiences of today's teachers:

• a balanced discussion of phonics
  
  
• more on multilingualism
  
  
• new chapters on emergent literacy, pedagogy, transitions, and children as communicators
  
  
• broader age range—more on infants and toddlers and children in the early years of school
  
  
• the role of children's literature in teaching and learning
  
  
• early scribble and drawing as part of emergent writing

Enhanced with student-friendly features such as "reflection and follow-up" questions, short summaries of each chapter, transcripts of teacher–child communication, and dozens of photos and samples of children's early writing, this essential textbook will help future educators teach literacy skills with confidence in today's diverse classrooms.

(Distributed for Elsevier Australia.)

Part 1: Frameworks for thinking about literacy

Chapter 1: Surveying the Landscape
Laurie Makin

Chapter 2: Emergent literacy
Claire McLachlan

Chapter 3: Literacy as social practice
Criss Jones Díaz

Chapter 4: Understanding literacy pedagogy in and out of school
Barbara Comber and Jo-Anne Reid

Chapter 5: Multiliteracies: towards the future
Susan Hill

Chapter 6: Children's worlds: globalisation and critical literacy
Criss Jones Díaz, Bronwyn Beecher and Leonie Arthur

Part 2: Pathways to literacy

Chapter 7: Many roads through many modes: becoming literate in childhood
Julie Martello

Chapter 8: Literacy transitions
Anne Kennedy and Lynne Surman

Chapter 9: Young children using language to negotiate their social worlds
Susan Danby and Christina Davidson

Chapter 10: Multiple ways of making meaning: children as writers
Caroline Barratt-Pugh

Chapter 11: Reading contexts and practices in the childhood years
Pauline Harris

Chapter 12: Multiliteracies and the arts
Laurie Makin and Peter Whiteman

Chapter 13: Literacy assessment: understanding and recording meaningful data
Alma Fleet and Jane Torr

Part 3: Multiliteracies and diversity

Chapter 14: Other words, other worlds: bilingual identities and literacy
Criss Jones Díaz and Nola Harvey

Chapter 15: Doing it 'proper': the case of Maori literacy
Margie Hohepa and Stuart McNaughton

Chapter 16: Indigenous literacies: moving from social construction towards social justice
Wendy Hanlen

Chapter 17: Literacy for all? Young children and special literacy learning needs
Margaret McNaught

Chapter 18: Literacy and gender in childhood contexts: moving the focus
Nola Alloway

Conclusion: new pathways for literacy in early childhood education
Laurie Makin

Index