Linking Families, Learning, and Schooling: ParentResearcher Perspectives [Hardcover]

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 childrens 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.

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 Childrens Construction of Race in Home and Community Settings
Erin T. Miller

Section 2:  Families and Schooling

Chapter 4
The Struggle for Literacy: Leos Story
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