Teaching Young Learners in a Superdiverse World: Multimodal Approaches and Perspectives

Heather Lotherington · Cheryl Paige

apr, 2017 · Routledge Research in Education 190-kitob · Taylor & Francis

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This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington’s Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (2011), this volume picks up after teachers and researchers have learned how to work efficiently as a learning community to offer project-based learning approaches. This edited collection relates how teachers and students of different grade levels, language backgrounds, and abilities developed a shared agenda and created a framework for effective and inclusive practices. Contributors demonstrate that collaboration, creative pedagogical solutions and innovative project-based learning are all essential parts of learning and teaching socially appropriate and responsive literacies in a multimodal, superdiverse world.

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Heather Lotherington is Professor of Multilingual Education at York University, Canada.

Cheryl Paige is an education consultant and former principal of Joyce Public School, Canada.