Learning to communicate effectively is highly important for supporting children’s social and emotional wellbeing. In this webinar, Dr Rebecca Hopkins from Auckland University of Technology supports teachers to broaden both their conceptualisation of literacy within early childhood educational settings, and their intentional practices to build children’s literacy skills and understandings.
This webinar explores ways that literacy practices might support friendships and social skills, as well as emphasising the importance of rich language and conversational practices and the enjoyment of books and storytelling.
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Dr Rebecca Hopkins is a lecturer at Auckland University of Technology | Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau. Her research expertise includes the ethics, tensions, and possibilities of image production and consumption, including visual research methods and methodologies, and her doctoral research explored and critiqued images of childhood and the normalised use of photographs in early childhood education.
