Researching Literacy Lives: Building communities between home and school [Hardcover]

 ?A ground-breaking book. For years educationists have sought evidence of genuine partnerships between schools and homes ? reciprocal partnerships where schools are as keen to foster home practices relating to literacy and learning as they are to tell families ?this is what we do? and ask that they should do the same.? Eve Bearne, Cambridge Un

Acknowledgements

Authors biographies

List of figures

Chapter 1: Introduction: Setting the context

Chapter 2: Laying the foundations

Chapter 3: The project methodology

Chapter 4: Teachers developing researcher dispositions

Chapter 5: Teachers developing new knowledge about the children

Chapter 6: Teachers shifting views of literacy and pedagogic practice

Chapter 7: Teachers sharing and building relationships

Chapter 8: Teachers shifting perspectives about parents and children

Chapter 9: Professional learning journeys

Chapter 10: Conclusion References

Informed by international research and illustrated throughout with examples and case studies of the experiences of the classroom teachers involved in the research, Researching Childrens Literacy Lives offers fresh insight into literacy teaching and learning. It looks towards the future and prompts the profession to think more critically about the everyday literacy lives of todays children and the consequences for building communities of learners, for fostering parental pal#�