TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medina,Carmen Liliana
AU  - Wohlwend,Karen E.
TI  - Literacy, play and globalization: Converging imaginaries in children's critical and cultural performances 
T2  - Routledge research in education
SN  - 978-0415637169 (hardback)
AV  - LB 1139.5 .L35M43 2014
U1  - 372.6 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Language arts (Early childhood)
KW  - Play
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - EDUCATION / General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book takes on current perspectives on transnationalism and children's relationships to media, childhood, and markets in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children's media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared visions of communities that we collectively imagine, including play, media, gender, family, school, or cultural worlds. It draws upon elements of ethnographies of globalization to examine the convergences of such imaginaries across multiple sites: early childhood and elementary classrooms and communities in Puerto Rico and the Midwest United States. The analysis situates children's literacy and play practices in the intersections of local/global, rural/urban, Spanish/English/multilingual, and Latino multinational media/US multinational media, revealing how children use drama and pretense to relocate, take up, contest, and consume global media and consumer identities. "--
ER  -