Check out global literacy in local learning contexts: connecting home and school
Global Literacy in Local Learning Contexts by Dr. Mary Faith Mount-Cors recognizes the current education quality and learning discussions in global development and what is missing from them. There is interest currently in which mechanisms account for school success and children’s later outcomes. Teacher training, classroom instruction, and community engagement in school are often cited as key areas of investment to improve education quality and achieve better literacy outcomes. This book fills a void in these global education discussions, and research and academic knowledge, about the configurations of mothers’ and children’s daily lives and how these factors affect literacy development at school. The book advocates for maternal-child literacy, which applies a life course perspective akin to that drawn on in maternal-child health. This perspective combines a sound understanding of human development and the social determinants of literacy as they intersect across the course of one’s life and across generations. This perspective puts appropriate attention on intersectional analysis, in seeing how gender, ethnic group, language group, culture, health conditions, and economic situation have effects on children’s and mothers’ literacies. Elements of family literacy, cultural analysis, and additive schooling come into play in this type of model to combat literacy inequities.
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.
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