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- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Scrutinizes meaning-making in children’s creative practices
- Analyze the variety of expressive modes in children’s artefacts
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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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About the authors
Tuuli Lähdesmäki is an associate professor at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Jūratė Baranova was a professor at the Department of Continental Philosophy and Religious Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania.Susanne C. Ylönen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Katja Mäkinen is a senior researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Vaiva Juškiene is a junior researcher at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Irena Zaleskienė is a senior researcher at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning Cultural Literacy through Creative Practices in Schools
Book Subtitle: Cultural and Multimodal Approaches to Meaning-Making
Authors: Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Jūratė Baranova, Susanne C. Ylönen, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Katja Mäkinen, Vaiva Juškiene, Irena Zaleskiene
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89236-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89235-7Published: 03 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89238-8Published: 03 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89236-4Published: 02 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 151
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literacy, Intercultural Communication, Creativity and Arts Education