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The Techno-Literacy Practices of Young Children
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In this article, the authors discuss findings from a survey undertaken in a working-class community in the north of England which aimed to identify the emergent techno-literacy practices of a group of 44 children aged between two and a half and four years of age.Abstract:
In many analyses of children’s ‘emergent literacy’ (Clay, 1966) practices, there is little acknowledgement of children’s engagement in techno-literacy practices. This article discusses findings from a survey undertaken in a working-class community in the north of England which aimed to identify the ‘emergent techno-literacy’ practices of a group of 44 children aged between two and a half and four years of age. It is argued that the multimodal textual competencies and semiotic choices of these ‘toddler netizens’ (Luke, 1999) should be more widely acknowledged within current curriculum frameworks for the early years.read more
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Shaping Early Childhood through the Literacy Curriculum
TL;DR: The authors examined how policy developments in the last decade in England have impacted on and'shaped' the curriculum for literacy in early childhood and views about how young children learn about literacy, arguing that these views are contradicted by well-established research in the field of emergent literacy, which reveals young children as active and competent learners.