Learning Cultural Literacy through Creative Practices in Schools Cultural and Multimodal Approaches to Meaning-Making

• Main Authors: Lähdesmäki, Tuuli, Baranova, Jūratė, Ylönen, Susanne C, Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa, Mäkinen, Katja, Juškiene, Vaiva, Zaleskiene, Irena
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2022; Springer International Publishing; Springer International Publishing AG; Palgrave Macmillan
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Arts; children's art; Communication studies; creativity in education; cultural literacy; Culture; EDUCATION; Interdisciplinary studies; Language and Linguistics; Language Arts; learning program; Linguistics; Literacy; multimodality; Nonfiction; Open Access; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Society and Social Sciences; Teaching of a specific subject

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...

Table of Contents:

• Ideas of Belonging in the Cultural Artifacts -- Ideas of Home in the Cultural Artifacts -- Intersections of Belonging and Home in the Cultural Artifacts -- References -- 8 Cultural Literacy During COVID-19 -- Reporting and Research on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Imagery -- COVID-19 in Student Artifacts: Obeying Rules and Taking Care of Oneself and Others -- Empathy, Tolerance, and Inclusion in the Context of the Global Pandemic -- Conclusions: Exceptions, Peculiarities, and Missing Ideas -- References -- 9 Conclusions: Cultural Literacy in Action -- Repetition as Creativity, Dialogic Chains of Thinking, and Multimodality -- Ability to Empathize and Approach Differences -- Learning Cultural Literacy Through Creative Practices -- References -- Index
• Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Cultural Literacy and Creativity -- Focuses, Premises, and Objectives -- Concepts: Cultural Literacy and Creativity -- The Cultural Literacy Learning Programme, Data and Methods -- References -- 2 A Sociocultural Approach to Children's Visual Creations -- Different Strands of Research on Child Art and children's Drawings -- A Sociocultural Approach to Student-made Artifacts -- Our Approach to Power Relations -- References -- 3 Multimodality: Art as a Meaning-Making Process -- Texts as a Multiplicity of Signs -- Semiotic Meaning-making Categories: Field, Tenor, and Mode -- Tracing Field, Tenor, and Mode (Material, Social, and Semiotic Realities) in the CLLP -- References -- 4 Tolerance, Empathy, and Inclusion -- Core Components of Cultural Literacy -- Tolerance: Helping Strangers -- Empathy: Recognizing Emotions -- Inclusion: Doing Things Together -- Conclusions: Entangled Attitudes -- References -- 5 Living Together -- Defining the Concept of Living Together -- The CLLP Approach to and Data on Living Together -- Food and Everyday Activities as Signs of Cultural Diversity -- Otherness and Challenges in Teaching Solidarity -- Solidarity with Nonhumans -- Living Together and Complex Child-adult Relationships -- References -- 6 Social Responsibility -- Extending the Notion of Responsibility: I, We, Animals, Environment, and the Earth -- The CLLP Approach to and Data on Social Responsibility -- Social Competence as the Ability to Include Others -- The Interrelation Between Social and Civic Competences and Sustainable Development -- Exploring Sustainable Development -- References -- 7 Belonging and Home -- Defining the Concepts of Belonging and Home -- The CLLP Approach to and Data on Belonging and Home