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Popular culture, new media and digital literacy in early childhood /

Popular culture, new media and digital literacy in early childhood / - London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2005. - xiii, 245 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : children of the digital age / Jackie Marsh -- Changing childhood cultures -- New textual landscapes, information and early literacy / Victoria Carrington -- Ritual, performance and identity construction : young children's engagement with popular cultural and media texts / Jackie Marsh -- Verónica : an asset model of becoming literate / Muriel Robinson and Bernardo Turnbull -- Bilingual children's uses of popular culture in text-making / Charmian Kenner -- Children and technologies -- Watching Teletubbies : television and its very young audience / Susan Roberts and Susan Howard -- The CD-ROM game : a toddler engaged in computer-based dramatic play / Cynthia R. Smith -- Narrative spaces and multiple identities : children's textual explorations of console games in home settings / Kate Pahl -- 'Pronto, chi parla? (hello, who is it?') : telephones as artefacts and communication media in children's discourses -- Julia Gillen, Beatrice Accorti Gamannossi and Catherine Ann Cameron -- Transformative pedagogies -- Popular culture : views of parents and educators / Leonie Arthur -- Barbie meets Bob the builder at the workstation : the word on screen/E-mergent literacies in the early years / Guy Merchant -- Resistance, power-tricky, and colorless energy : what engagement with everyday popular culture texts can teach us about learning, and literacy / Vivian Vasquez -- Behind the scenes : making movies in early years classrooms / Helen Nixon and Barbara Comber.

This text closely examines the ways in which popular culture, media and digital technologies impact upon the lives and literacy practices of young children.

9780415335737 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780415335737: £22.50


Mass media in education.
Media literacy.
Early childhood education.
Technology and children.
Popular culture.
Child development.
Learning strategies.

372.133 / MAR