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Jacobs, Mary M. – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2017
Counterportraits from a qualitative study of family literacy at a homeless shelter illustrate the impact of institutionalized racism on parent narratives about neighborhoods, communities, and schools. Black parents privileged Whiteness through "minority majority storytelling" (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002) to make sense of their lives in…
Descriptors: Homeless People, African Americans, Racial Bias, Parents
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2017
Although they are often overlooked by policymakers, intergenerational approaches to literacy and learning have huge potential across a range of agendas and particularly for disadvantaged and vulnerable families. Research evidence reveals the considerable benefits of family learning for both children and adults. Fostering a culture of learning…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Numeracy, Language Skills
Brown, Elizabeth; Rosenthal, Julie; Dynega, Nicole – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2018
This article explores a first-grade team's efforts to develop a family-school literacy partnership. The first-grade teachers wrote and developed the "Family at Home Literacy Questionnaire" to understand how their first graders selected texts and read with family members at home. The findings identified a number of unexpected at-home…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Family School Relationship, Family Programs
Saban, Ayten Iflazoglu; Altinkamis, Naime Feyza; Gul, Ebru Deretarla – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This paper aims to test the reliability and validity of the Turkish adaptation of DeBaryshe and Binder's Parent Reading Belief Inventory (PRBI) and to investigate parents' literacy beliefs. The primary focus of this paper is to explore parents' beliefs and practices and their relatedness on the emergent literacy of their children aged 3-7 (M=69.8…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Emergent Literacy, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Segal, Aviva; Howe, Nina; Persram, Ryan J.; Martin-Chang, Sandra; Ross, Hildy – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
Research on the home literacy environment has typically involved parents as teachers with little attention given to siblings' roles in teaching each other. This study examines naturalistic language and literacy teaching by 39 sibling dyads, at two timepoints, when children were ages 2 and 4 (time 1; T1) and again at ages 4 and 6 (time 2; T2). Each…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Sibling Relationship, Language Acquisition
Digital Promise, 2016
The Students and Parents In Cooperative Education (SPICE) Family Literacy Program serves central Maine's Regional School Unit #3 (RSU 3). SPICE's mission is to integrate childhood and adult education. RSU 3 spreads across 440 square miles. Over this vast distance, there is no one town where people gather. So SPICE educators went straight to their…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Literacy Education, Rural Areas, Geographic Isolation
Sadiq, Assadullah – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
Although there is a growing body of literature which focuses on museums' role in supporting children's literacy, there is also a need for studies to show ways in which museums can support refugee families' literacy practices. In light of this gap, this qualitative study explores the role of a children's museum in the literacy practices of a recent…
Descriptors: Museums, Refugees, Family Literacy, Role
Anderson, Jim; McTavish, Marianne; Kim, Ji Eun – International Literacy Association, 2017
According to the United Nations, nearly a quarter of a billion people now live outside their country of birth, and it is predicted that this number will increase dramatically over the next decade or so. This international movement of people means that, increasingly, teachers and educators work with immigrant and refugee children and families who…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Refugees, Immigrants, Emergent Literacy
Kim, Sujin; Dorner, Lisa M.; Song, Kim H. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
This article examines translanguaging that occurs in and as a community. Expanding the notion of translanguaging, we conceptualize "community translanguaging" as collaborative meaning-making among children, their family and community members, and their collective semiotic resources. Using a family literacy project as the research site,…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Code Switching (Language), Semiotics, Family Relationship
Kuang, Xiaoxue; Kennedy, Kerry J. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2021
The aim of the study is to explore alienated and disaffected students in Latin America and investigate the development of their civic attitudes. The study has focused on a context that is assuming growing importance globally and about which more needs to be known, especially in terms of its potential for democratic development. The focus is on…
Descriptors: Alienation, Gender Differences, Scores, Social Values
Yang, Shuling; Kiramba, Lydiah Kananu; Wessels, Stephanie – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
This is a qualitative case study that explores conversational interactions during book-reading practices in a Mandarin-speaking Chinese American family between the mother and her two young children. The study employs a sociocultural lens and the concept of translanguaging to describe the characteristics of interactional practices during book…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
Mesa, Carol; Restrepo, M. Adelaida – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: This study investigated the effects of a family literacy program on Latino parents' language practices at home and their children's oral language skills. The study examined the extent to which (a) the program called "Family Reading Intervention for Language and Literacy in Spanish" was effective at teaching low-income,…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Parent Education, Hispanic Americans, Mothers
Anderson, Jeffrey Alvin; Chen, Ming-E; Min, Mina; Watkins, Lara L. – Education and Urban Society, 2019
After receiving a multiyear federal grant, an urban school district and community agency that focused on family literacy implemented a comprehensive school reform initiative called Providence Full Service Community Schools (PFSCS). A host of community partners collaborated to develop the PFSCS model with the broad goal of strategically connecting…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Community Schools, Family Literacy, Partnerships in Education
Lynch, Jacqueline – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2019
Father involvement in children's education is known to have increased over the years, yet less is known about their involvement with children outside of school, particularly after children attend formal schooling. Such information could provide more knowledge of children's literacy engagement in schools as well as have implications for future…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Participation, Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes
He, Ye; Wilson, Deborah; Scott, Amanda; Zhao, Xingyi – School Community Journal, 2019
The increasing number of English learners in local communities in the U.S. include both children and their family members. There is an urgent need to provide educational support for both generations of English learners. In this report from the field, a partnership program using a two-generation approach is described. Based on interviews,…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Intergenerational Programs, Cultural Capital, Partnerships in Education