Can I read Storytelling in Early Childhood : Enriching Language, Literacy and Classroom Culture on EtoBox?

Storytelling in Early Childhood : Enriching Language, Literacy and Classroom Culture by Teresa Cremin; Rosie Flewitt; Ben Mardell; Joan Swann is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Storytelling in Early Childhood : Enriching Language, Literacy and Classroom Culture about?

Storytelling in Early Childhood is a captivating book which explores the multiple dimensions of storytelling and story acting and shows how they enrich language and literacy learning in the early years. Foregrounding the power of children's own stories in the early and primary years, it provides evidence that storytelling and story acting, a pedagogic approach first developed by Vivian Gussin Paley, affords rich opportunities to foster learning within a play-based and language-rich curriculum. The book explores a number of themes and topics, including: the role of imaginary play and its dynamic relationship to narrative; how socially situated symbolic actions enrich the emotional, cognitive and social development of children; how the interrelated practices of storytelling and dramatisation enhance language and literacy learning, and contribute to an inclusive classroom culture; the challenges practitioners face in aligning their understanding of child literacy and learning with a narrow, mandated curriculum which focuses on measurable outcomes. Driven by an international approach and based on new empirical studies, this volume further advances the field, offering new theoretical an

Author

Teresa Cremin; Rosie Flewitt; Ben Mardell; Joan Swann

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317394136