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

Chapter 1 The Creative “Art” of Making Meaning

Chapter 2 Drawing to Learn

Chapter 3 Sacred Structures: Assembling Meaning, Constructing Self

Chapter 4 Creating a Critical Multiliteracies Curriculum: Repositioning Art in the Early Childhood Classroom

Chapter 5 Drawing as a Relational Event: Making Meaning Through Talk, Collaboration, and Image Production

Chapter 6 “Look Mother! Mother Look!”: Young Children Exploring Life with Their Mother

Chapter 7 Young Children’s Drawings and Storytelling: Multimodal Transformations That Help to Mediate Complex Sociocultural Worlds

Chapter 8 Children, Elders, and Multimodal Arts Curricula: Semiotic Possibilities and the Imperative of Relationship

Chapter 9 Children’s Engagement with Contemporary Art in the Museum Context

Chapter 10 Children in Crisis: Transforming Fear into Hope Through Multimodal Literacy

Chapter 11 Studio Thinking in Early Childhood

Chapter 12 “Uh Oh”: Multimodal Meaning Making During Viewing of YouTube Videos in Preschool

Chapter 13 Empowering Preservice Teachers to Design a Classroom Environment That Serves as a Third Teacher

Chapter 15 “Struggling Learner”…or Struggling Teacher?: Questions Surrounding Teacher Development for Multimodal Language, Literacy, and Learning

Chapter 16 Multimodal Visions: Bringing “Sense” to Our Twenty-First Century Texts