Crayons, Goldilocks, and the Big Bad Wolf: Young Children Making and Remaking Global and Local Worlds Through Play, Art, and Story

• In Event: 67.067 - MTCC Roundtable Session 31
  In Roundtable Session: 67.067-5 - Critical Literacy and Arts in the Development of Culturally Conscience Curriculum

Abstract

In response to the helplessness or lack of agency often assigned to young children whose lives are shaped by global forces (Orellana, 2016), this paper focuses on children’s power and imagination in an early childhood space. With a critical sociocultural lens, I utilize discourse analysis to highlight how children create spaces in which they can bring in and share their home or out of school literacies through play and storytelling. Ultimately, I look at how these acts can constitute restorying (Thomas & Stornialou, 2016) through intertextual moves, a remaking of reality and past experience that orients towards a transformative future.

Author

• Anne Valauri, The Ohio State University