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Education Preschool & Kindergarten

The Role of Place and Play in Young Children's Language and Literacy

edited by Shelley Stagg Peterson & Nicola Friedrich

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2022
Category
Preschool & Kindergarten, General, Elementary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487529222
    Publish Date
    Mar 2022
    List Price
    $39.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487529215
    Publish Date
    Mar 2022
    List Price
    $90.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487529246
    Publish Date
    Mar 2022
    List Price
    $39.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487529239
    Publish Date
    Apr 2022
    List Price
    $39.95

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Description

Dominant assumptions about place tend to be defined in relation to urban communities. To assume a singular construction of urban places misrepresents the experiences, perspectives, and identities of urban children, making their identities become invisible to researchers, educators, and curriculum developers.

 

Sharing a wide range of perspectives, The Role of Place and Play in Young Children’s Language and Literacy sheds light on language and literacy learning in play-based early childhood settings where place plays an important role in teaching and learning. Drawing on geographic contexts, including northern rural and Indigenous communities, and giving voice to educational leaders in Indigenous professional learning contexts, as well as speech-language pathologists, this book joins forces with literacy and early childhood education researchers to create an interdisciplinary collage of theory, research, and practice.

 

Bringing play and place together, a concept Shelley Stagg Peterson and Nicola Friedrich call playce-based learning, this book provides new and compelling ways to think about equity and educational opportunity in the language and literacy development of young children, and offers spaces for them to construct their own identities in positive ways.

About the authors

Shelley Stagg Peterson is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto.

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Nicola Friedrich is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto.

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