Instructor (tenure-track)
Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
Dr. McTavish’s work with early childhood teacher candidates and digital literacies reconceptualizes the way literacy is taught and practiced. Her expertise in emergent and early literacy is recognized in her work with EC educators and researchers across Canada; she has presented in Europe and throughout North America; and has published in early childhood journals, such as Canadian Children, Canadian Journal of Education, the Reading Teacher, and the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.
Contributions:
Emerging Scholar Award, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Group, Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education (CPECE), 2014
McTavish, M., Streelasky, J., & Coles, L. (2012). Listening to children's voices: Children as participants in research. International Journal of Early Childhood [Special Issue: Children's perspectives ]44(3), 249-267.
McTavish, M. (2012). “I get my facts from the Internet”: A case study of the teaching and learning of information literacy in school and out-of-school contexts. In K. Pahl & J. Rowsell (Eds.), Early Childhood Literacy, Volume 4: New Directions in Early Literacy Policy and Practice (pp. 239-262). Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA. [reprint]
Anderson, J., Moffatt, L., McTavish, M., & Shapiro, J. (2013). Thinking critically about early childhood language education: Socio-cultural perspectives. In O. Saracho & B. Spodek (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children/3ed. New York: Routledge. (pp. 117-134).
Co-developer and co-cordinator of two M.Ed cohorts in Early Literacy Education, in partnership with the Surrey School Board 2011, 2014
Keywords:
Early childhood; Early literacy in digital contexts; Literacy; Multiple literacies; Pedagogy; Technology; Teacher education.
marianne.mctavish@ubc.ca
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