scholarly journals “No-one would sleep if we didn’t have books!”: Understanding shared reading as family practice and family display

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mel Hall ◽  
Rachael Levy ◽  
Jenny Preece
Keyword(s):  
Family Practice ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Shared Reading ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Family Setting ◽  
The Relationship

Families are pivotal in terms of facilitating children’s language development, including their ability to read. However, to date, there is little research designed to understand how shared reading operates within the realm of everyday family practices. Drawing on data from a study which set out to explore shared reading practices in the home, this article considers reading within the context of the family and everyday family life. In-depth interviews were carried out with 29 parents of pre-school children to investigate shared reading practices within a socially and culturally mixed sample. This study revealed that the relationship between shared reading practices and family practices is recursive. In particular, building on the seminal work of Finch reading was seen to be a specific feature of family practice and routine, and acts as a form of family display. Furthermore, this article demonstrates how shared reading contributes toward the ways in which structure and agency may operate in a family setting. Constructing reading as a family practice and a form of display makes an important contribution to understandings of home literacy practices and behaviors. This article concludes that endeavors to engage families with shared reading therefore require a comprehensive understanding of family life and family practices and the role of shared reading within.

Shared Book Reading and Bilingual Decoding in Latinx Immigrant Homes

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-208
Author(s):  
Amanda K. Kibler ◽  
Judy Paulick ◽  
Natalia Palacios ◽  
Tatiana Hill
Keyword(s):  
Family Literacy ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Shared Reading ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Shared Book Reading ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Family Literacy Practices ◽  
Older Siblings

Through in-home ethnographic observations of three multilingual immigrant families’ shared book reading, we identified recurring literacy practices in the home in which mothers, older siblings, and younger children participated during the reading. We found that families engaged in context-sensitive and cooperative shared reading practices, wherein decoding tended to be the focus. This practice—which we call transcultural decoding—involved multidirectional language socialization practices and occurred across languages, and older family members contributed both expertise and restrictive conceptions of reading. This work suggests the importance of (a) acknowledging the major focus on decoding during shared reading in families, and reconceptualizing that work as complex and nuanced, particularly across languages and cultures, and (b) considering siblings as cultural and linguistic mediators in family literacy practices.

scholarly journals Problematic Social Media Use and Social Connectedness in Adolescence: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Family Life Satisfaction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Savci ◽  
Muhammed Akat ◽  
Mustafa Ercengiz ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths ◽  
Ferda Aysan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Problematic Social Media Use ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

AbstractProblematic social media use (PSMU) among adolescents has become an area of increasing research interest in recent years. It is known that PSMU is negatively associated with social connectedness. The present study examined the role of family life satisfaction in this relationship by investigating its mediating and moderating role in the relationship between problematic social use and social connectedness. The present study comprised 549 adolescents (296 girls and 253 boys) who had used social media for at least 1 year and had at least one social media account. The measures used included the Social Media Disorder Scale, Social Connectedness Scale, and Family Life Satisfaction Scale. Mediation and moderation analyses were performed using Hayes’s Process program. Regression analysis showed that PSMU negatively predicted family life satisfaction and social connectedness. In addition, family life satisfaction and PSMU predicted social connectedness. Mediation analysis showed that family life satisfaction had a significant mediation effect in the relationship between PSMU and social connectedness. Family life satisfaction was partially mediated in the relationship between PSMU and social connectedness. Moderation analysis showed that family life satisfaction did not have a significant effect on the relationship between PSMU and social connectedness. The study suggests that family life satisfaction is a meaningful mediator (but not a moderator) in the relationship between problematic social media use and social connectedness.

1. Family Life and the Law

Family Law ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Lamont
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Family Behaviour

This chapter explores the nature of family life and the role of the law in family relationships to identify the particular challenges facing family lawyers. In particular, it considers how the law interacts with family life, how family relationships are identified in law, and what role the law plays in regulating family behaviour. The diversity and personalised experience of ‘family’ means that the role of the law in these processes is complex. There are two central issues facing family lawyers. First, the identification of a relationship as being one of ‘family’ for the purposes of the law is an important label, and may give rise to specific rights and obligations, even if the particular relationship bears no significance for the individual. Secondly, identifying the nature of the rights and obligations arising from a family relationship is central to determining the significance of the relationship.

scholarly journals Genetic thinking and everyday living: On family practices and family imaginaries

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Nordqvist
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Genetic Relationships ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
Family Living ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Working Out

This article is concerned with exploring how ideas about genes and genetic relationships are rendered meaningful in everyday life. David Morgan’s concept family practices has significantly shaped sociological enquiries into family lives in recent decades. It represents an important step away from a sociological focus on family as something you ‘are’ to family as something you ‘do’. With a focus on family as a set of activities, it however functions less well to capture more discursive dimensions of family life. Combining a focus on family as practice with an attention to discourse, the article concentrates specifically on ‘genetic thinking’ – the process through which genetic relationships are rendered meaningful in everyday family living. The study draws on original data from a study about families formed through donor conception, and the impact of such conception on family relationships, to show that genetic thinking is a salient part of contemporary family living. The article explores the everyday, normative assumptions, nuances and understandings about genetic relationships by exploring five dimensions: having a child; everyday family living; family resemblances; traits being ‘passed on’; and family members working out accountability and responsibility within the family. Showing the significance of genetic thinking in family life, the article argues for a more sustained sociological debate about the impact of such thinking within contemporary family life. The article also argues for the need to develop a sociological gaze more sensitive to the relationship between family as a set of activities and the feelings, imaginations, dreams or claims with which they are entwined.

scholarly journals A Relação entre Letramento e Gêneros Textuais

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Edy Simone Del Grossi ◽  
Bernadete De Lourdes S. Strang
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Juvenile Literature ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Meaningful Literacy ◽  
The Universe

Este artigo trata da alfabetização, da caracterização do sujeito leitor e do letramento, como parte do universo das salas de aulas, nas quais há vários escritores e poucos leitores. O objetivo principal foi abordar a relação entre o Letramento e os gêneros textuais, para mostrar que é possível fazer essa interação nas aulas práticas desde o Ensino Fundamental I até o Ensino Médio. Isso porque gêneros são conteúdos da Literatura Brasileira e as narrativas textuais continuam encantando crianças e adolescentes em todas as partes do mundo e nas diferentes épocas. Todo leitor conhece o processo da escrita, mas nem sempre faz uso correto da informação dada por ele. Muitas vezes, a leitura não é vista como resultado da aprendizagem, mas como meio para se atingir a esse objetivo. No entanto, na contemporaneidade a aproximação entre letramento e alfabetização não raro tem levado à concepção equivocada de que os dois fenômenos se complementam ou até se fundem. Esses, contudo, são processos diferentes, que se desenvolvem por meio de práticas sociais de leitura e de escrita, e é nesse contexto que emergem os gêneros textuais sugeridos e apresentados nos livros de literatura infantojuvenil. Entender a relação entre o letramento e os gêneros textuais, de modo a provocar impactos na formação docente e na apropriação de práticas letradas significativas é papel primordial da língua materna dentro das políticas públicas atuais. Por isso, saber utilizar os gêneros textuais na propagação dessas leituras permite melhor compreensão da necessidade de se dominar o código escrito.Palavras-chave: Alfabetização. Letramento. Gêneros Textuais. AbstractThis article deals with language skills, readers’ characterization and literacy as a part of the universe of classrooms, in which there are several writers and few readers. The main objective was to address the relationship between Literacy and textual genres, to show that it is possible to make this interaction in the practical classes from Elementary School I to High School. This is because genres are Brazilian Literature contents and textual narratives continue to enchant children and adolescents in all parts of the world and at different times. Every reader knows the writing process, but they do not always make correct use of the information given by it Often reading is not seen because of learning, but as a means to achieve that goal. However, in contemporaneity the approach between literacy and language skillshas often led to the misconception that the two phenomena complement or even merge each other. These, however, are different processes and are developed through social practices of reading and writing, and it is in this context that the textual genres suggested and presented in juvenile literature books emerge. Understanding the relationship between literacy and textual genres in order to have an impact on Teacher’s education and the appropriation of meaningful literacy practices is a primary role of the mother language within current public policies. So, knowing how to use the textual genres in the propagation of these readings allows a better understanding of the need to master the written code. Keywords: Language Skills. Literacy. Literature. Genres.   

Cultural Differences in Young Adults’ Perceptions of the Probability of Future Family Life Events

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calandra Speirs ◽  
Vivian Huang ◽  
Candace Konnert
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Life Events ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Caregiving ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceived Probability

Most young adults are exposed to family caregiving; however, little is known about their perceptions of their future caregiving activities such as the probability of becoming a caregiver for their parents or providing assistance in relocating to a nursing home. This study examined the perceived probability of these events among 182 young adults and the following predictors of their probability ratings: gender, ethnicity, work or volunteer experience, experiences with caregiving and nursing homes, expectations about these transitions, and filial piety. Results indicated that Asian or South Asian participants rated the probability of being a caregiver as significantly higher than Caucasian participants, and the probability of placing a parent in a nursing home as significantly lower. Filial piety was the strongest predictor of the probability of these life events, and it mediated the relationship between ethnicity and probability ratings. These findings indicate the significant role of filial piety in shaping perceptions of future life events.

scholarly journals Understanding the barriers and motivations to shared reading with young children: The role of enjoyment and feedback

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Preece ◽  
Rachael Levy
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Parental Perceptions ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Shared Reading ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Home Reading ◽  
Reading Activity ◽  
Depth Interviews

Shared reading with young children has a positive impact on a range of areas including language development and literacy skills, yet some parents face challenges in engaging in this activity. While much is known about the benefits of shared reading, the barriers to it are poorly understood. The research presented here draws on in-depth interviews with 20 parents of pre-school children to understand home-reading practices in a socio-economically and culturally mixed sample, exploring the motivations and barriers that exist to engaging in shared reading. Results indicate that parents are motivated to engage in shared reading when there is clear evidence of their child’s enjoyment. However, parental perceptions of ‘negative’ child-feedback could be a barrier to shared reading. This has particular implications for the age at which parents perceive reading to be a valued and worthwhile activity for their child, suggesting that some parents may choose not to read with their babies because they are not receiving the feedback they require in order to sustain the activity. Moreover, this study also revealed that, for many parents, their enjoyment of shared reading activity was closely related to evidence of child enjoyment, thus creating a further barrier to reading when child enjoyment was perceived to be absent. This has strong implications for interventions that seek to encourage and support home-reading practices between parents and young children.

scholarly journals Transnational Literacies as Social Remittances: The Role of Language Ideologies in Shaping Migrants’ Online Literacies

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-319
Author(s):  
Tony Capstick
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Social Remittances ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Similar Vein ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract It is now twenty years since the term ‘social remittances’ was taken up to capture the notion that migration involves the circulation of ideas, practices, identities, and social capital between destination and origin countries, in addition to the more tangible circulation of money. In a similar vein, a social theory of literacy sees practices not as observable units of behaviour but rather as social processes which connect people. To identify how literacy practices can be seen as social remittances, I identify how Usman, the key respondent in this study, goes about describing his first six months in the UK by tracing the meaning-making trajectories in our interviews together. I then explore the language and literacy choices that his family and friends make on Facebook as they remit ideas, beliefs, and practices in their transnational literacies. I examine how these practices are shaped by beliefs about language. The article seeks to understand the relationship between migrants’ literacy practices before and after their migrations and how these practices remit ideas and beliefs which maintain transnational migration.

scholarly journals Developing young athletes: The role of private sport schools in the Norwegian sport system

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Kristiansen ◽  
Barrie Houlihan
Keyword(s):  
Youth Sport ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Development System ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the paper is to analyse the increasingly prominent role of private sports schools in the development of elite athletes in Norway. The context for the analysis is the apparent paradox between the emergence of a network of sports schools, the most successful of which are private and require that parents pay a fee, and the social democratic values of Norway. Data were collected through a series of interviews with 35 respondents from nine stakeholder groups, including athletes, coaches, parents and sport school managers. The research describes an elite sport system that is successful in producing medal-winning athletes, but which is organisationally fragmented, uncoordinated and under-funded with regard to youth talent identification and development and susceptible to tensions between key actors. The primary analytical framework is Kingdon’s multiple streams framework augmented by path dependency theory. The findings include, a picture of an elite youth sport development system in which multiple and overlapping problems have received, at best, only partial policy solutions some of which, such as the growth of private sports schools, have emerged by default. When focusing attention on the relationship between structure and agency in the policy process it is argued that the government, through its inaction, has allowed sports schools the policy space to expand. The consequence is that the government has, whether deliberately or not, enabled the strengthening of a commercial elite youth sport development system, while still preserving its egalitarian and non-interventionist credentials.

scholarly journals Pendidikan dalam Keluarga Berbasis Etika Buddha

INFERENSI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Sapardi Sapardi
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Text Data ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Moral Ethics ◽  
Life Education ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Era

This study aims to find out familial education on the basis of Buddhist ethics and the relationship of Buddhist teachings in building a happy, prosperous family life. The foregoing rests upon the identification of texts from the Tipitaka / Tripitaka Scriptures related to Education in the Family and moral ethics (Sila), and the texts are subsequently analyzed and dissected using the theory of structural functionalism and hermeneutics. Based on the analysis of the aforesaid text data, it can be seen the role of moral ethics that must be put forward and become a guide in shaping a happy and prosperous family life. Education in the Family is a pattern or method that must be done by a Buddhist household. Based on ethics in managing hittasukkhaya life, it becomes the basis and guide in creating happy and prosperous home life (hitta sukkhaya). Moral ethics (Sila) is the basis and foundation and guide for householders in creating a happy and prosperous life in the face of various changes that occur in the current modern era.

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