Researching Early Childhood Literacy in the Classroom

Taylor & Francis

Researching Early Childhood Literacy in the ClassroomLiteracy as a Social Practice\nAuthor(s): Lucy Henning\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032240084, 978-1032240084\nSynopsis\nThis volume demonstrates how the ethnographic approach to research demanded by a Literacy as Social Practice perspective can generate fresh insights into what happens when young children engage with schooled literacy tasks.\n\nResearching Early Childhood Literacy in the Classroom argues that the lived experience of young children encountering formal schooled literacy curricula should be the foremost consideration in educational reforms intended to improve rates of literacy acquisition in schools. To make this argument, the author suspends traditional concerns with learning and progress to concentrate on practice and meaning in a careful analysis of key classroom incidents. The author concludes that such insights suggest a need for re-con.