This volume demonstrates how the ethnographic approach to research demanded by a \'Literacy as Social Practice\' perspective can generate fresh insights into what happens when young children engage with schooled Literacy tasks.
Researching Early Childhood Literacy in the Classroom argues that the lived experience of young children encountering formal schooled Literacy curricula should be the foremost consideration in educational reforms intended to improve rates of Literacy acq.
This volume demonstrates how the ethnographic approach to research demanded by a \'Literacy as Social Practice\' perspective can generate fresh insights into what happens when young children engage with schooled Literacy tasks