scholarly journals Critical Issues Literacy Connections between School and Home: How Should We Evaluate Them?

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Serpell
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
Home School ◽  
School Connection ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Children’S Homes ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
The One

The value of a partnership between teachers and parents in the promotion of children's literacy appears self-evident. It symbolizes both the school's accountability to the community it serves and the complementary responsibility of families to support the school's agenda of empowering their children with the tools of civilization. Many parents and teachers across the world perceive, however, that there is something amiss with the relations between them. On the one hand, they share an interest in the literacy development of the same children, and in some sense, they subscribe to an implicit contract to share responsibility for promoting it. Yet, disagreement frequently arises about how this contract is to be executed in practice. In this eclectic review of research, I consider three complementary ways in which the nature of the connection between children's homes and the schools they attend can be problematized, each focusing on a different criterial dimension for evaluating the home-school connection: (a) congruence of family life with the agenda of schooling, (b) intimacy, or depth of understanding, between teachers and parents, and (c) sociocultural productivity of the interaction between the school and its students' home communities.

Enhanced Picture Books

2013 ◽  
pp. 196-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cahill ◽  
Anne McGill-Franzen ◽  
Dawn Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Shared Reading ◽  
Home School ◽  
Early Childhood Classroom ◽  
School Connection ◽  
Children's Literacy

This chapter provides a rationale for using digitally Enhanced Picture Books (EPBs), electronic texts which pair text narration with animated pictures, with young children in the classroom and as a home-school connection tool. First, we synthesize the research on shared reading with young children. Next, we detail the research literature in the area of digital text use with young children. We suggest substantive variables to consider when selecting EPBs. Finally, we recommend practices for integrating EPBs into the primary and early childhood classroom in a manner that will advance young children’s literacy development.

What makes partnership valid? Home-school communication and parent-school partnerships

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Liddicoat ◽  
Glenda Shopen
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Home School ◽  
School Partnerships ◽  
School Communication ◽  
School Learning ◽  
Children's Literacy

Abstract Recent work in literacy has emphasised the partnership between parents and schools in furthering children’s literacy development. This paper discusses the nature of this partnership in late primary school and early secondary school learning in Australia and the ways in which information is communicated between the partners. It is argued that, while schools devote a lot of attention to communicating with parents, this communication does not typically become true dialogue. Instead, the communication is always monodirectional with the school communicating messages to parents, but rarely receiving (or attending to) messages from parents. As such, parents come to be viewed by the schools as junior partners in their children’s literacy development and the school view of partnership focuses on moving parents into the school’s framework. At the same time some parents do not see the partnership in the same way as the school and instead locate responsibility for developing basic skills with the school. Attempts to include parents may then be seen as getting parents to do the school’s work. The study concludes that in current practice there is not actual partnership between school and home in the group investigated.

scholarly journals On the Problem of Contacts of the Living with the Deceased: How the Deceased Protect Themselves from the Living

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Andrey B. Moroz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Field Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Russian North ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Dream Stories ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This article is based on field data from the Russian North. Its subject is the problem of the relationship between the living and the deceased. The main goal of the article is to show how dream stories transform the Russian peasants’ idea idea that deceased persons can visit their living kin in order to continue their family life together, including sexual relations. This mythological plot, which often causes real fear among people who have lost relatives, is mirrored in dream stories. On the one hand, the appearance of the deceased in a dream is associated with the expectation of the dreamer’s imminent death. On the other, stories are recorded about dreams where the deceased husband refuses to take his wife with him to the world of the dead or even tries to get rid of her. The reluctance of the deceased to take his living relative with him can be explained by the desire to preserve the border between the world of the living and the world of the dead. For protection from the living, the deceased use the same strategies as do the living to protect themselves against the dead relatives when they come. These strategies include: 1) escape (upon seeing a living relative, the dead goes away); 2) declaring the absence of suitable housing (the deceased husband has nowhere to bring his wife); 3) expulsion with the help of aggression, primarily obscene swearing.

Observations of Elementary and Middle School Children Interacting With Computers

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-205
Author(s):  
David R. Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
School Children ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Middle School Children ◽  
The World ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Elementary And Middle School

This chapter summarizes exploratory field observations with interpretive comments in three Chicago area schools (two elementary and one middle) and explores the relationship between children's literacy, use of computers, and the world wide web. These observations provide better understand of how the world wide web could be used to support children's literacy development. The cases provide detail related phenomena that could be further explored and achieve fuller understanding of the role computer technology plays in children's classroom learning and advocates for the holistic study of the wellbeing in children.

Who is Entitled to be a Literacy Expert? Category Entitlements of Parents and Professionals in the Literature on Children's Literacy Learning

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela J McKenzie ◽  
Rosamund K. Stooke
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Development ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Education Discourse

This paper critically analyses representations of librarians, teachers and parents in texts pertaining to children's literacy development. Using Jonathan Potter's concept of "category entitlement," we discussed the ways that writers in both the library and information science (LIS) and education discourse communities represent particular groups of people as "literacy experts." We found that representations of librarians' and teachers' professional...

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

Indonesian Literature’s Position in World Literature

TEKNOSASTIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dina Amelia
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Western World ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice

There are two most inevitable issues on national literature, in this case Indonesian literature. First is the translation and the second is the standard of world literature. Can one speak for the other as a representative? Why is this representation matter? Does translation embody the voice of the represented? Without translation Indonesian literature cannot gain its recognition in world literature, yet, translation conveys the voice of other. In the case of production, publication, or distribution of Indonesian Literature to the world, translation works can be very beneficial. The position of Indonesian literature is as a part of world literature. The concept that the Western world should be the one who represent the subaltern can be overcome as long as the subaltern performs as the active speaker. If the subaltern remains silent then it means it allows the “representation” by the Western.

CRYPTOCURRENCY PHENOMENON IN THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM

2017 ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
Артур Анатолійович Василенко
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
International Monetary System ◽  
State University ◽  
Electronic Money ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Post Graduate Student ◽  
The One ◽  
Xix Century

UDC 336.74   Vasylenko Artur, post-graduate student. Mariupol State University. Cryptocurrency Phenomenon in the International Monetary System. The main prerequisites of cryptocurrency emergence in the international monetary system in terms of regionalization of the world economy are defined in the article. Determination of «cryptocurrency» category was analysed from the point of two main approaches to its treatment: on the one hand cryptocurrency is admitted to be the currency equally to the sovereign currency, and on the other hand it is considered as an unrecognized virtual asset. The main consequences which arise in case of widespread use of crypto currency for the country and for the parties that agreed to use cryptocurrency were analysed and systematized. On the basis of the research, given the current trends in the world economy, the author put forward and substantiated the hypothesis to classify the phenomenon of cryptocurrency as the effects of a famous philosophical «Negation of negation law» formulated by G. Hegel at the beginning of the XIX century.   Keywords: cryptocurrency, material money, electronic money, digital currency, regional currency integration, blockchain, mining, capitalization, «Negation of negation law».

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