Literacy, Play and Globalization
Converging Imaginaries in Children's Critical and Cultural Performances
By Carmen L. Medina, Karen E. Wohlwend | Publisher: Taylor and Francis
About the book
This book takes on current perspectives on children’s relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children’s media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared visions of communities that we collectively imagine, including play, media, gender, family, school, or cultural worlds. It draws upon elements of ethnographies of globalization, nexus analysis and performance theories to examine the convergences of such imaginaries across multiple sites: early childhood and elementary classrooms and communities in Puerto Rico and the Midwest United States. In this work we attempt to understand that the local moment of engagement within play, dramatic experiences, and literacies is not a given but is always emerging from and within the multiple localities children navigate and the histories, possibilities and challenges they bring to the creative moment.
Editions of Literacy, Play and Globalization
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- ISBN 9781136193774
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- ISBN 9781136193781
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This book takes on current perspectives on children’s relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children’s media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared visions of communities that we collectively imagine, including play, media, gender, family, school, or cultural worlds. It draws upon elements of ethnographies of globalization, nexus analysis and performance theories to examine the convergences of such imaginaries across multiple sites: early childhood and elementary classrooms and communities in Puerto Rico and the Midwest United States. In this work we attempt to understand that the local moment of engagement within play, dramatic experiences, and literacies is not a given but is always emerging from and within the multiple localities children navigate and the histories, possibilities and challenges they bring to the creative moment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Literacy, Play and Globalization about?
This book takes on current perspectives on children’s relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children’s media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared visions of communities that we collectively imagine, including play, media, gender, family, school, or cultural worlds. It draws upon elements of ethnographies of globalization, nexus analysis and performance theories to examine the convergences of such imaginaries across multiple sites: early childhood and elementary classrooms and communities in Puerto Rico and the Midwest United States. In this work we attempt to understand that the local moment of engagement within play, dramatic experiences, and literacies is not a given but is always emerging from and within the multiple localities children navigate and the histories, possibilities and challenges they bring to the creative moment.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Literacy, Play and Globalization?
Society and Social Sciences > Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy > Philosophy and theory of education > Moral and social purpose of education
Where can I read a sample of Literacy, Play and Globalization?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781136193774
Is Literacy, Play and Globalization part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Routledge Research in Education
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Literacy, Play and Globalization?
Carmen L. Medina, Karen E. Wohlwend
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Literacy, Play and Globalization is available as ebook(ISBN 9781136193774) and pdf(ISBN 9781136193781)