Teaching Young Learners in a Superdiverse World

<p>This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington’s <i>Pedagogy of Multiliteracies </i>(2011) this volume<i> </i>picks up after teachers and researchers have learned how to work efficiently as a learning community to offer project-based learning approaches. This edited collection relates how teachers and students of different grade levels language backgrounds and abilities developed a shared agenda and created a framework for effective and inclusive practices. Contributors demonstrate that collaboration creative pedagogical solutions and innovative project-based learning are all essential parts of learning and teaching socially appropriate and responsive literacies in a multimodal superdiverse world.</p>