Publisher's Synopsis
-Offers a foundation for understanding how literacy and arts integration interconnect to advance innovation, accessibility, and equity in K-8 classrooms.
-Draws from perspectives across sociocultural theories of literacy, new and digital literacies, multiliteracies, culturally responsive pedagogy, critical pedagogy, and art, demonstrating for readers the multiple frameworks necessary to understand innovation, creative approaches, and arts integration in contemporary classroom contexts.
- Written by an author team with decades of experience in teaching literacy, writing, and arts integration across a variety of learning environments, offering coverage based on a wealth of experience in multicultural classrooms and working with diverse learners.
-Each chapter includes conceptual and theoretical framing based on research, case studies and practical classroom strategies, as well as discussion questions.