Karen E. Wohlwend
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
Publications
146
Citations
2,453
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
22
Publishing since 2005
Karen E. Wohlwend studies how young children develop literacy through play, including hands-on activities, digital media, and storytelling in settings like classrooms and children's museums. Her work explores how children use multiple modes of communication (talking, gesture, drawing, digital tools) to make meaning, with attention to multilingual learners and equity. She also develops playful research methods for studying childhood learning.
Publication activity varied year to year with peaks around 2020 and 2022, followed by a noticeably lower output in the most recent years (roughly one per year since 2023).
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- Mediated Discourse and Nexus Analysis
2026
- Play as the Literacy of Children
2025
- Playing together: Parents and children reading materials and spaces in a museum playscape
Learning and Instruction · 2024
- Toddlers tinkering with toys: Following action assemblages in children’s museum play
2023
- Serious Play for Serious Times
The Reading Teacher · 2022
- Digital childhoods as nexus of practice
2022
- Play and Mental Health
2022
- Playful Methods
2022
- 2 Multimodal Literacies at the Train Table: Supporting Young Emergent Bilinguals through Play
Multilingual Matters eBooks · 2022
- Play, Ruptures, and Becomings
2022
- Improvisation as Inquiry Spaces for (Un)Doing Literacy and Doing Humanizing Work
2022
- Uncertain Futures and Unsatisfying Conclusions
2022
- Invitations to Play and Reimagine Inquiry for Lived Literacies
2022
- The Research Encounter
2022
- Imaginaries and the Imagination in Literacy Research Encounters
2022
- The Reading Teacher×5
- Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education×3
- Journal of Early Childhood Literacy×2
- Arts Education Policy Review×1
- Computers in Human Behavior×1
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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.
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