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The Role of Place and Play in Young Children's Language and Literacy
Shelley Stagg Peterson (Edited by), Nicola Friedrich (Edited by)
9781487529222
Paperback / softback, published 31 March 2022
282 pages, 24 b&w illustrations
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.4 kg
Dominant assumptions about place tend to be defined in relation to urban communities. To assume a singular construction of urban places misrepresents the experiences, perspectives, and identities of urban children, making their identities become invisible to researchers, educators, and curriculum developers. Sharing a wide range of perspectives, The Role of Place and Play in Young Children’s Language and Literacy sheds light on language and literacy learning in play-based early childhood settings where place plays an important role in teaching and learning. Drawing on geographic contexts, including northern rural and Indigenous communities, and giving voice to educational leaders in Indigenous professional learning contexts, as well as speech-language pathologists, this book joins forces with literacy and early childhood education researchers to create an interdisciplinary collage of theory, research, and practice. Bringing play and place together, a concept Shelley Stagg Peterson and Nicola Friedrich call playce-based learning, this book provides new and compelling ways to think about equity and educational opportunity in the language and literacy development of young children, and offers spaces for them to construct their own identities in positive ways.
List of Figures 1. Introduction: Playce-Based Language and Literacy Learning in Early Childhood 2. Valuing Rural and Indigenous Social Practices: Play as Placed Learning in Kindergarten Classrooms 3. Seven Directions Early Learning for Indigenous Land Literacy Wisdom 4. Sámi Children’s Language Use, Play, and the Outdoors Through Teachers’ Lens 5. Young Children Exploring Identities, Languages, and Cultures in a Multicultural Place 6. Placing the Child’s Hands on the Land: Conceptualizing, Creating, and Implementing Land-Based Teachings in a Play Space 7. Negotiating a Place to Belong in an Aotearoa New Zealand Playgroup 8. The Importance of the Land, Language, Culture, Identity, and Learning in Relation for Indigenous Children 9. If Writing Floats "on a Sea of Talk," How Best to Harness the Waves and Currents of Place and Play? 10. Scaffolding Community Literacy Practices in Kindergarten Classrooms 11. Children’s Engagement and Inquiry in Outdoors Contexts as Play- and Place-Based Learning 12. Enriching Learning with the Richness Around Us 13. Exploring Urban Place-Based Play as a Stimulus for "Language in Action" and "Language as Reflection" 14. The Key Role of the Educator as a Conversational Partner in Play- and Place-Based Learning 15. Language Learning in the Garden: Discoveries from a Collaboration in a North-Central Saskatchewan Indigenous Community 16. Conclusion: Questions and Implications Arising from Playce-Based Learning in Communities across Four Continents 17. Places and Players: An Afterword Contributors
Shelley Stagg Peterson and Nicola Friedrich
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Kristina Belancic
Maria Cooper and Helen Hedges
Lori Huston and Stephanie Michano-Drover
Mary M. Jacobs
Jeffrey Wood
Judy M. Parr
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Gisela Wajskop
Christine Portier
Janet Scull and Kim O’Grady
Janice Greenberg and Sharon Walker
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