 | Learning from Picturebooks: Perspectives from child development and literacy studies Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Education; Language & Literature; Psychological Science; Childhood; Language & Linguistics; Early Childhood; Cognitive Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Linguistics; Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children's literature. Being highly complex aesthetic products, their use is deeply embedded in specific situations of joint attention between a caregiver and a child. This volume focuses on the question of what children may learn from looking at picturebooks, whether printed in a book format, created in a digital format, or self-produced by educationalists and researchers. Divided into three parts considering symbol-based learning, co-constructed learning, and learning language skills, this cross-disciplinary volume will appeal to researchers, students and professionals engaged in children's literature and literacy studies, as well as those from the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, and education. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer is Professor in the German Department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Kerstin Nachtigäller is a member of the Emergentist Semantics Group at the Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany. |
