Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation

Kristiina Kumpulainen is Professor of Education and Scientific Director of the Playful Learning Center at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.Julian Sefton-Green is Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Australia.

• 1. Multiliteracies and early years innovation: Perspectives from Finland and beyond. 2. Early years teachers’ work and play with multiliteracies. 3. Finnish teachers making sense and promoting multiliteracies in early years education. 4. Conceptualizing and recontextualizing child and teacher multiliteracy goals in digital video production. 5. Promoting young children’s scientific literacy as a dynamic practice. 6. Multiliteracies pedagogy promoting young children’s ecological literacy on climate change. 7. Finding a space for a theory of multiliteracies: Librarians, boundary work, and definitions of literacy. 8. Making the Moomins: A Finnish/English adventure. 9. In transition to school: Across vernacular and institutional multiliteracies. 10. Positive affect in young children’s multiliteracies learning endeavors. 11. Children’s Minecraft multiliteracy practices and learning through peer pedagogies. 12. Conclusions: Future directions of multiliteracies scholarship and practice.