- Departments/Offices:
- Center for Research on Learning and Technology; Curriculum and Instruction; Learning, Design, and Adult Education
- Academic Programs:
- Early Childhood Education; Learning Sciences; Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
- Research Areas:
- Play, Early Literacies, Digital Literacies, Children's Media
- Room:
- ED 3056
- Email:
- kwohlwen@iu.edu
- Phone:
- (812) 856-8275
- Website:
- http://www.karenwohlwend.com/
- Curriculum Vitae
About Me
My research reconceptualizes young children’s play as an embodied literacy that produces action texts made with moving bodies or animation rather than print on a page or screen. Taking a critical sociocultural perspective, I study play in playrooms, classrooms, museums, and makerspaces, looking at how players interact with toys, popular media, video games, YouTube, Twitter, and other social networks.
Websites:
Current research projects include:
- Literacy Playshop: Critical media literacy through toyhacking and digital media in PK-16 classrooms
- Literacy and STEM learning in a Doc McStuffins museum exhibit (with Dr. Adam Maltese)
- Design Playshop: Embodied literacies in makerspaces (with Dr. Kylie Peppler)
My Books
Playful Methods: Engaging the Unexpected in Literacy Research
CARMEN LILIANA MEDINA, MIA PERRY, KAREN WOHLWEND
Literacy playshop: New literacies, popular media, and play in the early childhood classroom
KAREN WOHLWEND, Beth Buchholz, Christy Wessel Powell, Linda Coggin, and Nick Husbye
