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Learning Cultural Literacy through Creative Practices in Schools

This open access book discusses how cultural literacy can be taught and learned through creative practices. It approaches cultural literacy as a dialogic social process based on learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic, tolerant, and inclusive interaction. The book focuses on meaning-making i...

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Main Authors: Lähdesmäki, Tuuli, Baranova, Jūratė, Ylönen, Susanne C., Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa, Mäkinen, Katja, Juškiene, Vaiva, Zaleskiene, Irena
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2021
Subjects:
cultural literacy
children's art
multimodality
learning program
creativity in education
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thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFC Literacy
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNU Teaching of a specific subject
Online Access:ONIX_20211115_9783030892364_19
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Summary:This open access book discusses how cultural literacy can be taught and learned through creative practices. It approaches cultural literacy as a dialogic social process based on learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic, tolerant, and inclusive interaction. The book focuses on meaning-making in children and young people’s visual and multimodal artefacts created by students aged 5–15 as an outcome of the Cultural Literacy Learning Programme implemented in schools in Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, and the UK. The lessons in the program address different social and cultural themes, ranging from one’s cultural attachments to being part of a community and engaging more broadly in society. The artefacts are explored through data-driven content analysis and self-reflexive and collaborative interpretation and discussed through multimodality and a sociocultural approach to children’s visual expression. This interdisciplinary volume draws on cultural studies, communication studies, art education, and educational sciences.

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