Researching Literacy Lives: Building home school communities (original) (raw)

Abstract

The project Building Communities: Researching Literacy Lives (BC: RLL) on which this book is based sought to enable teachers, positioned as researchers, to develop new knowledge about children’s everyday literacy practices and widen their own conceptions of literacy. It also sought to develop two-way traffic between homes and schools and new teacher-child and teacher-parent relationships. The UK based project was a collaborative university, Local Authority (LA) and school partnership study that sought to explore children’s everyday literacy practices in the 21st century. It was undertaken by a team comprised of five university-based researchers, five LA co-ordinators, and eighteen participatory teacher-researchers from ten schools (for children between 4-11 years). In an attempt to avoid the ‘cheery, unfailingly positive tone’ (Vincent, 1996:74) of some project reporting, this text explores the challenges which emerged during the course of the project; the dilemmas and difficulties ...

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