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- Title
Books, bytes and brains: The implications of new knowledge for children's early literacy learning.
- Authors
Hopkins, Liza; Green, Julie; Brookes, Fiona
- Abstract
THE EARLY YEARS OF CHILDHOD are critical for the successful development of adult literacy, whatever that literacy might look or feel like in the oncoming digital age. Two questions that become important are what sort of literacy (or literacies) will children need in the future to navigate new information pathways, and how can we use recent advances in neuroscience to help us understand optimal pathways for developing the fundamentally social skills of literacy. This paper reviews recent research from the two traditionally separate areas of contemporary literacies and infant brain development to re-examine the underpinnings of literacy learning in the early years.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; KNOWLEDGE management; INTELLECTUAL capital; HUMAN capital; LITERACY; INFORMATION technology; NEWBORN infant development
- Publication
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2013, Vol 38, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
1836-9391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/183693911303800105