Children's Virtual Play Worlds; Culture, Learning, and Participation (58) (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

Anne Burke,Jackie Marsh

ISBN 10: 1433118262 / ISBN 13: 9781433118265

Published by Peter Lang US 2013-07-31, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children's Virtual Play Worlds; Culture, Learning, and Participation (58) (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)
• Publisher: Peter Lang US 2013-07-31
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433118262
• ISBN 13: 9781433118265
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

As children’s digital lives become more relevant to schools and educators, the question of play and learning is being revisited in new and interesting ways. Children’s Virtual Play Worlds: Culture, Learning, and Participation provides a more reasoned account of children’s play engagements in virtual worlds through a number of scholarly perspectives, exploring key concerns and issues which have come to the forefront. The global nature of the research in this edited volume embraces many different areas of study from school based research, sociology, cultural studies, psychology, to contract law showing how children’s play and learning in virtual spaces has great potential and possibilities.

About the Author

Anne Burke is an Associate Professor in Literacy Education and Early Learning at Memorial University. She has a PhD from the University of Toronto. She is a multiple Canadian SSHRC grant scholar and maintains a strong research presence in Canadian schools researching new literacies and the role of social media in children’s lives. She has authored and co-edited a number of books in the areas of children’s literate play lives, new literacies studies, and popular culture. Recent book titles include Play to Learn (2010) and Assessing New Literacies: Perspectives from the Classroom (2009).
Jackie Marsh (BA, PGCE, MEd, PhD) is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. Recent publications include Changing Play: Play, Media and Commercial Culture from the 1950s to the Present Day (with Bishop, in press), Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy, 2nd edition (co-edited with Larson, 2012), and Virtual Literacies: Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People (co-edited with Merchant, Gillen and Davies, 2012). She is an editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.