Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning in Early Childhood

1. The Creative “Art” of Making Meaning
Marilyn J. Narey

Part I. Beyond Words

2. Drawing to Learn
Margaret L. Brooks

3. Sacred Structures: Assembling Meaning, Constructing Self
James Haywood Rolling

4. Creating a Critical Multiliteracies Curriculum: Repositioning Art in the Early Childhood Classroom
Linda K. Crafton, Penny Silvers, Mary Brennan

5. Drawing as a Relational Event: Making Meaning Through Talk, Collaboration, and Image Production
Kristine E. Sunday

Part II. Contexts and Layered Texts

6. “Look Mother! Mother Look!”: Young Children Exploring Life with Their Mother
Susanna Kinnunen, Johanna Einarsdóttir

7. Young Children’s Drawings and Storytelling: Multimodal Transformations That Help to Mediate Complex Sociocultural Worlds
Rosemary D. Richards

8. Children, Elders, and Multimodal Arts Curricula: Semiotic Possibilities and the Imperative of Relationship
Rachel Heydon, Susan O’Neill

9. Children’s Engagement with Contemporary Art in the Museum Context
Brigita Strnad

10. Children in Crisis: Transforming Fear into Hope Through Multimodal Literacy
Donalyn Heise

Part III. Visions

11. Studio Thinking in Early Childhood
Kimberly M. Sheridan

12. “Uh Oh”: Multimodal Meaning Making During Viewing of YouTube Videos in Preschool
Christina Davidson, Susan J. Danby, Karen Thorpe

13. Empowering Preservice Teachers to Design a Classroom Environment That Serves as a Third Teacher
Katherina Danko-McGhee, Ruslan Slutsky

14. Stretching Toward Multimodality: The Evolution and Development of a Teacher Educator
Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran

15. “Struggling Learner”…or Struggling Teacher?: Questions Surrounding Teacher Development for Multimodal Language, Literacy, and Learning
Marilyn J. Narey

Part IV. Conclusion

16. Multimodal Visions: Bringing “Sense” to Our Twenty-First Century Texts
Marilyn J. Narey

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