Editors:
- Focuses on the unique implications of the research study for early childhood literacy practice
- Explains the research methods in clear and accessible language so that studies can be replicated
- Highlights the implications for further research
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 17)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Childhood literacy
- Colorado Child Temperament Inventory
- Digital technology in early childhood
- Early childhood curriculum and education
- Emergent writing instruction
- Hakalama
- Hawaiian Syllabic Reading Program
- Literacy assessment
- Professional development or learning
- Research methods in early childhood and literacy
- Storytelling Curriculum
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- children’s views of literacy practices
- future of literacy research
- language diversity
- morphological awareness instruction
- participatory research approach
- sociocultural perspectives of literacy
- sociology of childhood
- ʻAha Pūnana Leo
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Claire J. McLachlan
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Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Alison W. Arrow
About the editors
Alison Arrow, PhD, is a senior lecturer in literacy at Massey University, having graduated from the University of Auckland in 2008. One of Alison’s research areas is professional development in literacy with early childhood education teachers. This research has included the assessment of literacy abilities with children as young as three years old. She has published on the nature of literacy in early childhood and her current research examines how young children use digital technology at home and school for their literacy learning. Dr. Arrow has won a number of internal Massey University research grants and in 2012 she was the Massey University College of Education Early Career Research Award Winner. More recently, Alison has been successful in obtainingresearch funding for longitudinal intervention research with children just beginning school.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literacy in the Early Years
Book Subtitle: Reflections on International Research and Practice
Editors: Claire J. McLachlan, Alison W. Arrow
Series Title: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2075-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2073-5Published: 17 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9520-7Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2075-9Published: 07 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2468-8746
Series E-ISSN: 2468-8754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 279
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Literacy, International and Comparative Education