Popular Literacies, Childhood and Schooling [Hardcover]

This bold, forward-thinking text offers a clear rationale for the development of curricula and pedagogy that will reflect young peoples in-school and out-of-school popular culture practices.

By providing a sound theoretical framework and addressing popular culture and new technologies in the context of literacy teacher education, this book marks a significant step forward in literacy teaching and learning. It takes a cross-disciplinary approach and brings together contributions from some of the worlds leading figures in the field. Topics addressed include:

• childrens popular culture in the home
• informal literacies and pedagogic discourse
• new technologies and popular culture in childrens everyday lives
• teachers working with popular culture in the classroom.

This book illustrates the way in which literacy is evolving through popular culture and new technology and is an influential read for teachers, students, researchers and policy makers.

This bold, dynamic text offers a clear rationale for the development of curricula and pedagogy that will reflect young people's popular culture practices within and outside of school; and looks at the issue of educating teachers to embrace it.Introduction, Jackie Marsh, Elaine Millard; Part 1 Early childhoods; Chapter 1 Technokids, Koala Trouble and Pok?mon, Knobel Michele; Chapter 2 Childrens popular culture in the home, Kate Pahl; Chapter 3 Mr Naughty Man, Pamela Greenhough, Wan Ching Yee, Jane Andrews, Anthony Feiler, Mary Scanlan, Martin Hughes; Chapter 4 Playing with texts, Eve Bearne, Helen Wolstencroft; Chapter 5 A sign of the times, Guy Merchant; Part 2 Youth and adolescence; Chapter 6 No single divide, Colin Lankshear; Chapter 7 Informal literacies and pedagogic discourse, Gemma Moss; Chapter 8 Making it move, making it mlÃ&