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Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998
... Dramatizing Literature in Whole Language Classrooms, SECOND EDITION JOHN WARREN STEWIG and ..... more ... Dramatizing Literature in Whole Language Classrooms, SECOND EDITION JOHN WARREN STEWIG and ... and Children in Reading Recovery CAROL A. LYONS, GAY SU PINNELL, and DIANE E ... Weiserbs, Rachel Theilheimer, Anne Haas Dyson, Rene Parmar, Mary Ann Maslak ...
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2014
This sociolinguistic study explores complexities of supporting preschool emergent bilinguals' com... more This sociolinguistic study explores complexities of supporting preschool emergent bilinguals' communicative competence in multilingual classrooms. These complexities were highlighted in the author's qualitative research of a three-month school-home literacy project in one Head Start classroom. This article investigates what supported the children's communicative competence in retellings during book discussions, and the strategies and challenges the teacher faced in trying to enact whole-class discussions that would enhance the learning of all the emergent bilinguals in the setting. In findings centering on the book discussions, it was documented how the teacher created a context for the children to participate in story-retellings supported by her use of consistent, predictable structures in interaction that featured open-ended questions and uptake of children's responses. Features of the setting for biliteracy development privileged or circumscribed children's ability to draw on personal linguistic and peer resources. This represented an ongoing challenge in enhancing the learning of all the emergent bilinguals in this classroom.
Childhood education, Oct 1, 2001
The concept of early childhood education and care (ECEC) as 'social justice' is contested and com... more The concept of early childhood education and care (ECEC) as 'social justice' is contested and complex. In this article, the author calls on a historical perspective to critically reflect on social justice in ECEC. The author does this by exploring the early history of free kindergartens in Sydney, Australia. The author demonstrates, through this example, that the idea of 'social justice' has long been at the core of ECEC work in Australia. The work of the pioneers of early childhood education in Australia has tended to be minimised as little more than middle-class 'do-gooding' that perpetuated middle-class ways of knowing. Revisiting this history, the author argues that these early advocates, operating within the confines of their time, constructed free kindergartens as contributing to social justice. Understanding of present constructions of ECEC has much to gain from revisiting and critiquing this early history. A critical and respectful understanding of the history of ECEC enables contemporary advocates to place themselves within a long, hard-fought, though sometimes misguided and often controversial, tradition.
... Dramatizing Literature in Whole Language Classrooms, SECOND EDITION JOHN WARREN STEWIG and ..... more ... Dramatizing Literature in Whole Language Classrooms, SECOND EDITION JOHN WARREN STEWIG and ... and Children in Reading Recovery CAROL A. LYONS, GAY SU PINNELL, and DIANE E ... Weiserbs, Rachel Theilheimer, Anne Haas Dyson, Rene Parmar, Mary Ann Maslak ...
... Where's Chrissy nose? Um hmmmm. Bird. Bird. Can you flap your wings like a bird? Like th... more ... Where's Chrissy nose? Um hmmmm. Bird. Bird. Can you flap your wings like a bird? Like this. That's what birds do. They fly. They go wheee! CHILD:[Noises] ADULT: The birds. Whatcha got, Brian? Whatcha got? Uh boo!(Genishi & Dyson, 1984, p. 65) This conversation was ...
Childhood Education, 2001
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2014
This sociolinguistic study explores complexities of supporting preschool emergent bilinguals' com... more This sociolinguistic study explores complexities of supporting preschool emergent bilinguals' communicative competence in multilingual classrooms. These complexities were highlighted in the author's qualitative research of a three-month school-home literacy project in one Head Start classroom. This article investigates what supported the children's communicative competence in retellings during book discussions, and the strategies and challenges the teacher faced in trying to enact whole-class discussions that would enhance the learning of all the emergent bilinguals in the setting. In findings centering on the book discussions, it was documented how the teacher created a context for the children to participate in story-retellings supported by her use of consistent, predictable structures in interaction that featured open-ended questions and uptake of children's responses. Features of the setting for biliteracy development privileged or circumscribed children's ability to draw on personal linguistic and peer resources. This represented an ongoing challenge in enhancing the learning of all the emergent bilinguals in this classroom.
Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2000
Childhood Education, 2001
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998
... Dramatizing Literature in Whole Language Classrooms, SECOND EDITION JOHN WARREN STEWIG and ..... more ... Dramatizing Literature in Whole Language Classrooms, SECOND EDITION JOHN WARREN STEWIG and ... and Children in Reading Recovery CAROL A. LYONS, GAY SU PINNELL, and DIANE E ... Weiserbs, Rachel Theilheimer, Anne Haas Dyson, Rene Parmar, Mary Ann Maslak ...
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2014
This sociolinguistic study explores complexities of supporting preschool emergent bilinguals' com... more This sociolinguistic study explores complexities of supporting preschool emergent bilinguals' communicative competence in multilingual classrooms. These complexities were highlighted in the author's qualitative research of a three-month school-home literacy project in one Head Start classroom. This article investigates what supported the children's communicative competence in retellings during book discussions, and the strategies and challenges the teacher faced in trying to enact whole-class discussions that would enhance the learning of all the emergent bilinguals in the setting. In findings centering on the book discussions, it was documented how the teacher created a context for the children to participate in story-retellings supported by her use of consistent, predictable structures in interaction that featured open-ended questions and uptake of children's responses. Features of the setting for biliteracy development privileged or circumscribed children's ability to draw on personal linguistic and peer resources. This represented an ongoing challenge in enhancing the learning of all the emergent bilinguals in this classroom.
Childhood education, Oct 1, 2001
The concept of early childhood education and care (ECEC) as 'social justice' is contested and com... more The concept of early childhood education and care (ECEC) as 'social justice' is contested and complex. In this article, the author calls on a historical perspective to critically reflect on social justice in ECEC. The author does this by exploring the early history of free kindergartens in Sydney, Australia. The author demonstrates, through this example, that the idea of 'social justice' has long been at the core of ECEC work in Australia. The work of the pioneers of early childhood education in Australia has tended to be minimised as little more than middle-class 'do-gooding' that perpetuated middle-class ways of knowing. Revisiting this history, the author argues that these early advocates, operating within the confines of their time, constructed free kindergartens as contributing to social justice. Understanding of present constructions of ECEC has much to gain from revisiting and critiquing this early history. A critical and respectful understanding of the history of ECEC enables contemporary advocates to place themselves within a long, hard-fought, though sometimes misguided and often controversial, tradition.
... Dramatizing Literature in Whole Language Classrooms, SECOND EDITION JOHN WARREN STEWIG and ..... more ... Dramatizing Literature in Whole Language Classrooms, SECOND EDITION JOHN WARREN STEWIG and ... and Children in Reading Recovery CAROL A. LYONS, GAY SU PINNELL, and DIANE E ... Weiserbs, Rachel Theilheimer, Anne Haas Dyson, Rene Parmar, Mary Ann Maslak ...
... Where's Chrissy nose? Um hmmmm. Bird. Bird. Can you flap your wings like a bird? Like th... more ... Where's Chrissy nose? Um hmmmm. Bird. Bird. Can you flap your wings like a bird? Like this. That's what birds do. They fly. They go wheee! CHILD:[Noises] ADULT: The birds. Whatcha got, Brian? Whatcha got? Uh boo!(Genishi & Dyson, 1984, p. 65) This conversation was ...
Childhood Education, 2001
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2014
This sociolinguistic study explores complexities of supporting preschool emergent bilinguals' com... more This sociolinguistic study explores complexities of supporting preschool emergent bilinguals' communicative competence in multilingual classrooms. These complexities were highlighted in the author's qualitative research of a three-month school-home literacy project in one Head Start classroom. This article investigates what supported the children's communicative competence in retellings during book discussions, and the strategies and challenges the teacher faced in trying to enact whole-class discussions that would enhance the learning of all the emergent bilinguals in the setting. In findings centering on the book discussions, it was documented how the teacher created a context for the children to participate in story-retellings supported by her use of consistent, predictable structures in interaction that featured open-ended questions and uptake of children's responses. Features of the setting for biliteracy development privileged or circumscribed children's ability to draw on personal linguistic and peer resources. This represented an ongoing challenge in enhancing the learning of all the emergent bilinguals in this classroom.
Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2000
Childhood Education, 2001