Book
Literacy for empowerment: the role of parents in children's education
Falmer Press • New York • Published In 1990 • Pages:
By: Delgado-Gaitan, Concha.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book focuses on twenty families living in the community of Portillo, California and the concern of the parents with their children's success in literacy. The families sampled represent a sector of the Mexican Spanish-speaking community whose children were in different reading groups in the second and third grade. 'The research documented activities in the context of classroom literacy lessons, home literacy-related experiences, including homework and parental interactions with the school. The major research question was how the Spanish-speaking parents assisted their children in the education process and how those parents socialized each other to maximize their potential in dealing with the school' (pp. 4-5).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Education system
- Elementary education
- Teachers
- Educational theory and methods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1986-1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Portillo, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Concha Delgado-Gaitan
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-178)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89038892
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans