Overview
- Explores innovative ideas and applications of stories beyond typical school-based practices
- Offers an expansive view of stories as multimodal texts influencing all developmental areas
- Offers practical applications of research-based strategies in early childhood settings
Part of the book series: Educating the Young Child (EDYC, volume 16)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Hearing Children’s Voices
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Recognizing and Applying Stories
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Holistically Supporting Children’s Wellbeing
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Keywords
- Personal narratives and identity development in young children
- Autobiographical memory and young children’s narratives
- Story-based approaches to children’s physical development
- Young children’s creative movement through stories
- Developmental bibliotherapy with young children
- Narratives and child refugees, immigrants
- Family narratives and young children’s development
- young children’s mathematical reasoning through stories
- Social narratives with children with ASD
- Multimodal storytelling with young children
- Visual narratives and historical thinking in young children
- Developing critical literacy through young children’ stories
About this book
This book is based on the power of stories to support children in all areas of their lives. It examines the role narratives can play in encouraging growth in contexts and domains such as personal and family identity, creative movement, memory and self-concept, social relationships, or developing a sense of humor. Each chapter describes innovative and research-based applications of narratives such as movement stories, visual narratives to develop historical thinking, multimodal storytelling, bibliotherapy, mathematics stories, family stories, and social narratives. The chapters elaborate on the strength of narratives in supporting the whole child in diverse contexts from young children on the autism spectrum improving their social skills at school, to four- and five-year-olds developing historical thinking, to children who are refugees or asylum-seekers dealing with uncertainty and loss. Written by accomplished teachers, researchers, specialists, teaching artists and teacher educators from several countries and backgrounds, the book fills a gap in the literature on narratives.
“…this work delves into the topic of narratives in young children’s lives with a breadth of topics and depth of study not found elsewhere.”
“Collectively, the insights of the contributors build a convincing case for emphasizing story across the various disciplines and developmental domains of the early childhood years.”
“The writing style is scholarly, yet accessible. Authors used a wide array of visual material to make their points clearer and show the reader what meaningful uses of story “look like”.”
Mary Renck Jalongo, Journal and Book Series Editor Springer
Indiana, PA, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Story in Children's Lives: Contributions of the Narrative Mode to Early Childhood Development, Literacy, and Learning
Editors: Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran, Juli-Anna Aerila
Series Title: Educating the Young Child
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19266-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19265-5Published: 08 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19268-6Published: 08 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19266-2Published: 27 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2543-0610
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 371
Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Literacy, Children's Literature, Teaching and Teacher Education