Cal State San Marcos professor Christiane Wood has written the book on innovative education. Literally.
Wood’s new publication, “The Literacy of Play and Innovation: Children as Makers” (Routledge, 2019) provides an in-depth study of four early educators’ classrooms at a “maker” school where a makerspace, learning-by-creating environment fuels children’s curiosity and creativity, critical ingredients in literacy learning.
“Makerspaces help children expand their intellectual capability,” said Wood, an assistant professor of literacy education. “For young children, literacy and play are the foundations of all learning, and for this reason, understanding how literacy and play intersect with design and makerspaces becomes important as we explore the pedagogical value of making and creating cultures of innovation,” she wrote in her…
