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Black Lives, Literacies, and Homelessness in the Smog of Whiteness
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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
Migrant Mothers Becoming Active Agents in a United States Midwestern Context: Building Strengths by Breaking down the Outside-Inside Barrier
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Gouwens, Judith A.; Henderson, Robyn – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
In the current context of extensive national and cross-cultural migration, the education of migrant and refugee children is an important and critical consideration. In the U.S., the education of migrant children--who move with their farm worker parents within states, across state borders and sometimes across national borders--brings challenges…
Descriptors: Mothers, Barriers, Migrant Education, Family Literacy
Challenging "Best Practices" in Family Literacy and Parent Education Programs: The Development and Enactment of Mothering Knowledge among Puerto Rican and Latina Mothers in Chicago
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Johnson, Laura Ruth – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2009
This article discusses the findings of an ethnographic research study exploring the experiences of Puerto Rican women attending a family literacy program in Chicago. In particular, the study investigated the repositories of knowledge and information available to participating women that figured into the development of their notions about…
Descriptors: Females, Parent Education, Ethnography, Family Literacy
Fine Tuning the Mechanics of Success for Families. An Illinois Family Literacy Report. Report 4: Policy.
Illinois Literacy Resource Development Center, Rantoul. – 1992
This report, the fourth in a series describing an ongoing investigation of Illinois family literacy programs, documents the work and organization of a group that studied and developed state policy in the area of family literacy. The report includes the following: (1) the position paper that outlines the findings of the family literacy policy group…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Policy, Family Literacy
Fine Tuning the Mechanics of Success for Families. An Illinois Family Literacy Report. Report 3: Evaluation and Program Development.
Illinois Literacy Resource Development Center, Rantoul. – 1992
As a follow-up to phase 1 in reports 1-2, this report presents the second and third phases of a project which examined changes in seven Illinois family literacy programs, assisted the sites in implementing evaluation systems, and tested the usefulness of an evaluation framework. In phase 2, structured and conversational interviews and site…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Family Literacy
Ready for Reading: A Community College Approach to Family Literacy.
Bauernfeind, Barbara – 1990
A study investigated the effectiveness of a program for at-risk parents designed to improve family reading and thus prepare at-risk children for school. The program, "Ready for Reading," consists of three two-hour sessions conducted with parents at their children's school while the children are in pre-kindergarten classes in various…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Research, Family Literacy, High Risk Students