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...