Global Literacy in Local Learning Contexts: Connecting Home and School

✍ Scribed by Mary Faith Mount-Cors

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 235
• Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Based on qualitative research focused on literacy and health from three schools in coastal Kenya, this book examines country, school, and family contexts to develop a dual-generation maternal-child model for literacy learning and to connect local-specific phenomena with national and international policy arenas. In contrast to international development organizations’ educational policies and programs that tend to ignore literacy as a social practice within diverse contexts, the author unpacks the relationship between education and health, and the role of family and mothers in particular, highlighting how mothers are key actors in children’s literacy development and health outcomes.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Global Literacy Landscape and Local Literacy Discovery
2 Theoretical Frameworks: Building a Cultural Model for Literacy
3 Context Matters: Relevant Trends in Kenya
4 Local Contexts: Rural School Communities
5 Reading Mothers’ Lives: Connecting Home and School
6 Conclusions: Children, Parents, and Learning Environments
Appendix A: Research Methods
Appendix B: Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Instruments
Appendix C: Interview Protocols
Appendix D: Demographic Snapshot of Focus Group Participants
Index