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Download full textToso, Blaire Willson – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2012
Family literacy programs promote certain ideas about literacy and parenting. This study examined how Mexican immigrant women in a family literacy program used mainstream ideas, or discourses, of mothering and parent involvement in education to pursue their own personal and academic goals. The findings revealed that women were at times faced with…
Descriptors: Females, Immigrants, Literacy Education, Family Literacy
Prins, Esther; Toso, Blaire Willson; Schafft, Kai – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2008
Although many women value and benefit from social interaction in adult education and family literacy, these social dimensions are often treated as tangential or inconsequential. Utilizing data from two studies of family literacy programs in Pennsylvania, this study examined how family literacy programs provide a supportive social space for women…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Education, Literacy Education, Family Literacy
