Many Pathways to Literacy: Young Children Learning with Siblings, Grandparents, Peers, and Communities

Many Pathways to Literacy: Young Children Learning with Siblings, Grandparents, Peers, and Communities
ISBN-10
0415306175
ISBN-13
9780415306171
Category
Education
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Psychology Press
Authors
Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk

Description

This text is a compilation of studies conducted in a variety of cross-cultural contexts where children learn language and literacy with siblings, grandparents, peers and community members. Focusing on the knowledge and skills of children often invisible to educators, these illuminating studies highlight how children skillfully draw from their varied cultural and linguistic worlds to make sense of new experiences. Through studies grounded in home, school, community school, nursery and church settings, we see how children create for themselves radical forms of teaching and learning in ways that are not typically recognized, understood or valued in schools.

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