ABSTRACT

Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond brings together internationally renowned scholars to investigate and reflect upon the significance of introducing multiliteracies in the education of children (0–8 years old) and the challenge of enhancing professional development opportunities of early years practitioners.

The book brings together curriculum innovation and reform and the changing media ecology of young children's learning lives in a single volume. It provides insights into Finnish early years education in terms of policy, practice, and research with a specific focus on the enhancement of children’s multiliteracies. Case studies from around the world explore co-developing practices between researchers and teachers, the development of communities and the ways in which different classroom interventions draw on new kinds of teacher knowledge.

This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students with an interest in early years education, literacy education, the sociology of digital culture, school reform, teacher education, and comparative education.

chapter Chapter 1|20 pages

Multiliteracies and early years innovation

Perspectives from Finland and beyond

chapter Chapter 7|16 pages

Finding a space for a theory of multiliteracies

Librarians, boundary work, and definitions of literacy

chapter Chapter 8|17 pages

Making the Moomins

A Finnish/English adventure

chapter Chapter 9|18 pages

In transition to school

Across vernacular and institutional multiliteracies

chapter Chapter 12|7 pages

Conclusions

Future directions of multiliteracies scholarship and practice