Young Children Starting School: Learning Cultures

by Liz Brooker

Overview

This book traces the experiences of children from a poor inner-urban neighbourhood - half of them from Bangladeshi families - as they acquire the knowledge appropriate to their home culture and then take this knowledge to their reception class. It highlights the small differences in family life - in parenting practices, in perspectives on childhood, and in beliefs about work and play - which make a big difference to children's adaptations to school.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335209323
Publisher:	Open University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2002
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
1	Learning cultures in All Saints' End	1
2	Family values, and the value of families	20
3	Learning how to learn at home	43
4	School culture at All Saints' Primary	66
5	Learning to be a pupil	89
6	Linking home and school: learning to be a parent	113
7	Outcomes: children's progress and achievements	134
8	Understanding outcomes; changing practice	156
	Appendix	175
	Glossary of theoretical terms	177
	References	180
	Index	187

Editorial Reviews

The author, who taught for 20 years in inner London schools, traces the learning experiences of individual children from an inner-city, immigrant neighborhood in Britain as they bring their home cultures to a preschool classroom. She highlights the ways in which differences in parenting practices and beliefs about work and play influence children's adaptations to the classroom, and suggests ways of working with children from working-class and multicultural families. Brooker now teaches and researches at the Institute of Education in London. The book is distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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