Literacy and Popular Culture: Using Children's Culture in the Classroom - Couverture rigide

Marsh, Jackie; Millard, Elaine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761966188 ISBN 13 : 9780761966180

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Most children engage with a range of popular cultural forms outside of school. Their experiences with film, television, computer games and other cultural texts are very motivating, but often find no place within the official curriculum, where children are usually restricted to conventional forms of literacy.

This book demonstrates how to use children's interests in popular culture to develop literacy in the primary classroom. The authors provide a theoretical basis for such work through an exploration of related theory and research, drawing from the fields of education, sociology and cultural studies.

Teachers are often concerned about issues of sexism, racism, violence and commercialism within the disco

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jackie Marsh is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she conducts research on young children′s play and digital literacy practices in homes, communities and early years settings and primary schools. Her most recent publications include Changing Play: Play, Media and Commercial Culture from the 1950s to the Present Day (with Bishop, 2014) and Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy (edited with Larson, 2013). Jackie is an editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761966188
• ISBN 13: 9780761966180
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible