1st Edition
Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation Perspectives from Finland and Beyond
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Multiliteracies and early years innovation: Perspectives from Finland and beyond
Kristiina Kumpulainen and Julian Sefton-Green
2. Early years teachers’ work and play with multiliteracies
Lisa Kervin and Barbara Comber
3. Finnish teachers making sense of and promoting multiliteracies in early years education
Heidi Sairanen, Jonna Kangas and Sara Sintonen
4. Conceptualizing and recontextualizing child and teacher multiliteracy goals in digital video production
Jessica Zacher Pandya
5. Promoting young children’s scientific literacy as a dynamic practice
Jenni Vartianen and Kristiina Kumpulainen
6. Multiliteracies pedagogy promoting young children’s ecological literacy on climate change
Chin-Chin Wong and Kristiina Kumpulainen
7. Finding a space for a theory of multiliteracies: Librarians, boundary work, and definitions of literacy
Rebekah Willett
8. Making the Moomins: A Finnish/English adventure
Jackie Marsh, Alexandra Nordström, Heidi Sairanen and Minna Shkul
9. In transition to school: across vernacular and institutional multiliteracies
Ola Erstad
10. Positive affect in young children’s multiliteracies learning endeavors
Alexandra Nordström, Kristiina Kumpulainen and John Potter
11. Children’s Minecraft multiliteracy practices and learning through peer pedagogies
Michael Dezuanni
12. Conclusions: Future directions of multiliteracies scholarship and practice
Kristiina Kumpulainen and Julian Sefton-Green
Biography
Kristiina Kumpulainen is Professor of Education and Scientific Director of the Playful Learning Center at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Australia.
