Linking families, learning, and schooling : parent-researcher perspectives /

Parents who are also educational researchers have access to a domain that is highly complex and not always available to other scholars. In this book, parent-researchers provide theoretical and practical insights into children's learning in the home and at school. Readers are given a window into...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Kabuto, Bobbie, Martens, Prisca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Routledge, 2014.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction; SECTION 1 Everyday Families, Everyday Learning; 2 What Do Those Marks Really Mean?: A Semiotic Perspective to Writing in a Bilingual Context; 3 Whiteness, Discourse, and Early Childhood: An Ethnographic Study of Three Young Children's Construction of Race in Home and Community Settings; SECTION 2 Families and Schooling; 4 The Struggle for Literacy: Leo's Story.
  • 5 Preparing Teachers to Teach Other People's Children While Homeschooling Your Own: One Black Woman Scholar's Story; 6 My Gift to You Is My Language: Spanish Is the Language of My Heart; 7 "I Already Know How to Read!": Home and School Perceptions of Literacy; 8 At Home at School: Following Our Children; SECTION 3 Parent-Researchers As Archeologists in Daily Family Life; 9 "They Don't Really Know Me": Mother-Daughter Insights for Researchers and Teachers; 10 Looking Backward in Order to Look Forward: The Enduring Contribution of Parent Research; 11 Researching Literate Lives; List of Contributors; Index.