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Author Medina, Carmen L

Title Literacy, Play and Globalization : Converging Imaginaries in Children's Critical and Cultural Performances
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Education
Routledge research in education.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I Literacy Research within Multisited Imaginaries and Converging Worlds; 1 Global Networks, Cultural Production, and Literacy Practices; 2 Understanding Multisited Imaginaries in Literacy Research; Part II Mapping Multisited Imaginaries in Literacy Research; 3 Mapping Global Markets in Local Communities: Studying Cultural Production in Relation to a ""Third""; 4 Cultural Production of Telenovelas' Dramatic Worlds
5 Cultural Production of Disney Princess Play Worlds6 Convergences and Slippages in Children's Improvisations and Teachers' Pedagogical Imaginaries; Part III Convergences in Collective Cultural Imaginaries; 7 Participation, Scripting, and Embodiment in Children's Collective Imaginaries; 8 Globalization, Imagination, and the Possibilities of Agency; 9 Literacy, Play, and Globalization in Teacher Education: Critical Scriptings and Playshops; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; References; Index
Summary This book takes on current perspectives on children's relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children's media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared visions of communities that we collectively imagine, including play, media, gender, family, school, or cultural worlds. It draws upon elements of ethnographies of globalization, nexus analysis and performance theories to examine the convergences of such imaginaries across multiple sites: early childhoo
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Subject Cultural pluralism.
Language arts (Early childhood)
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Cultural pluralism
Language arts (Early childhood)
Form Electronic book
Author Wohlwend, Karen E.
ISBN 9781136193781
1136193782