ERIC Number: ED591703
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Apr-17
Pages: 240
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Teaching Young Learners in a Superdiverse World: Multimodal Approaches and Perspectives. Routledge Research in Education
Lotherington, Heather, Ed.; Paige, Cheryl, Ed.
Routledge Research in Education
This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington's "Pedagogy of Multiliteracies" (2011), this volume picks up after teachers and researchers have learned how to work efficiently as a learning community to offer project-based learning approaches. This edited collection relates how teachers and students of different grade levels, language backgrounds, and abilities developed a shared agenda and created a framework for effective and inclusive practices. Contributors demonstrate that collaboration, creative pedagogical solutions and innovative project-based learning are all essential parts of learning and teaching socially appropriate and responsive literacies in a multimodal, superdiverse world. Following a Foreword by Jim Cummins and Introduction by Heather Lotherington & Cheryl Paige this book contains the following chapters: (1) Creating a culture of success at Joyce Public School (Cheryl Paige); (2) We speak your language (Heather Lotherington & Farah Rahemtula); (3) Learning as play (Stephanie Fisher, Jennifer Jenson, Heather Lotherington, Stephanie Florence, & Chris Lee); (4) Designing collaborative learning spaces (Rhea Perreira-Foyle & Heather Lotherington); (5) Using disciplined improvisational learning to include students with challenges (Stephanie Fisher & Brian Chandrapal); (6) What if it flops? Learning as doing (Laura Mae Lindo & Cheryl Paige); (7) Welcoming parents into children's learning (Cheryl Paige, Michelle Holland-Spencer, Lesley Wilton & Deborah Surtees); (8) Global social justice perspectives in the superdiverse classroom: Focus on the refugee (My-Linh Hang-Coleman, Buu Hang, Rhea Perreira-Foyle & Andrew Schmitt); (9) Sharing authority for learning (Heather Lotherington & Sandra Chow); and (10) 21st century learning as discovery (Cheryl Paige & Heather Lotherington).
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Teaching Methods, Student Diversity, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Multiple Literacies, Language Usage, Inclusion, Play, Learning, Cooperative Learning, Classroom Environment, Special Needs Students, Learning Strategies, Social Justice, Global Approach, Refugees, Participative Decision Making
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Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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