Linking Families, Learning, and Schooling -

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Résumé :
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 learning in the home context and how all family members organize or engage in that learning. Working on two levels, the book develops scholarly discussions about learning in the home (how is it organized, who the participants are, and what children are learning), and it illustrates the impacts that outside institutions, in particular schools, have on families It is unique in showcasing parent-research as a type of research paradigm with particular aspects and challenges. Both teachers and researchers can learn from these studies as they show the impact that schooling has on families and how institutional discourses and beliefs can both positively and negatively affect the dynamics of any family....

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Contents

Foreword
Learning Lessons from Our Children and Grandchildren
Yetta M. Goodman

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1
Introduction
Bobbie Kabuto & Prisca Martens

Section 1: Everyday Families, Everyday Learning

Chapter 2
What Do Those Marks Really Mean?: A Semiotic Perspective to Writing in a Bilingual Context
Bobbie Kabuto

Chapter 3
Whiteness, Discourse, and Early Childhood: An Ethnographic Study of Three Young Children's Construction of Race in Home and Community Settings
Erin T. Miller

Section 2: Families and Schooling

Chapter 4
The Struggle for Literacy: Leo's Story
Catherine Olsen Maderazo

Chapter 5
Preparing Teachers to Teach Other People's Children While Homeschooling Your Own: One Black Woman Scholar's Story
Marcelle M. Haddix

Chapter 6
My Gift to You is My Language: Spanish is the Language of My Heart
Julia L?pez-Robertson

Chapter 7
I already know how to read!: Home and School Perceptions of Literacy
Prisca Martens

Chapter 8
At Home At School: Following Our Children
Kathleen Shannon & Patrick Shannon

Section 3: Parent-Researchers as Archeologists in Daily Family Life

Chapter 9
They don't really know me: Mother-Daughter Insights for Researchers and Teachers
Susi Long & Kelli Long

Chapter 10
Looking Backward in Order to Look Forward: The Enduring Contribution of Parent Research
Marcia Baghban

Chapter 11
Researching Literate Lives
Jerome C. Harste & Carolyn L. Burke