Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning in Early Childhood

• Foreword; Mary Renck Jalongo.- Preface; Marilyn J. Narey.- Introduction.- 1. The Creative “Art” of Making Meaning; Marilyn J. Narey.- Part One: Beyond Words.- 2. Drawing to Learn; Margaret Brooks.- 3. Sacred Structures: Assembling Meaning, Constructing Self; James Haywood Rolling, Jr.- 4. Creating a Critical Multiliteracies Curriculum: Repositioning Art in the Early Childhood Classroom; Linda K. Crafton, Penny Silvers, and Mary Brennan.- 5. Drawing as a Relational Event: Making Meaning through Talk, Collaboration, and Image Production; Kristine E. Sunday.- Part Two: Contexts and Layered Texts.- 6. “Look Mother! Mother Look!” – Young Children Exploring Life with their Mother; Susanna Kinnunen and Johanna Einarsdóttir.- 7. Young Children’s Drawings and Storytelling: Multimodal Transformations that Help to Mediate Complex Sociocultural Worlds; Rosemary D. Richards.- 8. Children, Elders, and Multimodal Arts Curricula: Semiotic Possibilities and the Imperative of Relationship; Rachel Heydon and Susan O’Neill.- 9. Children's Engagement with Contemporary Art in the Museum Context; Brigita Strnad.- 10. Children in Crisis: Transforming Fear into Hope through Multimodal Literacy; Donalyn Heise.- Part Three: Visions.- 11. Studio Thinking in Early Childhood; Kimberly M. Sheridan.- 12. “Uh oh”— Multimodal Meaning Making during Viewing of YouTube Videos in Preschool; Christina Davidson, Susan J. Danby, and Karen Thorpe.- 13. Empowering Pre-service Teachers to Design a Classroom Environment that Serves as a Third Teacher; Katherina Danko-McGhee and Ruslan Slutsky.- 14. Stretching toward Multimodality: The Evolution and Development of a Teacher Educator; Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran.- 15. “Struggling Learner”… or Struggling Teacher?: Questions Surrounding Teacher Development for Multimodal Language, Literacy, and Learning; Marilyn J. Narey.-Conclusion.- 16. Multimodal Visions: Bringing “Sense” to Our 21st Century Texts; Marilyn J. Narey.

“This book is about the abundant possibilities of sensemaking that can exist in the classroom and endless milieus which should be read by educators, pre-service educators and faculty members, around the world.” (Hanaa Ghannoum and Emma Cooper, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, January 2, 2020)