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Playing With Time : Mothers And The Meaning Of Literacy.

With a background of a reported decline in literacy standards, the author investigates the relationship between gender and literacy, revealing how families, and women in particular, feel pressurized to be responsible for their children's literacy.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mace, Jane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and boxes page; Acknowledgements; Picture credits; Introduction; Literacy, mothers and time; Literacy; Time; Literacy's transports; Family time and literacy time; Literacy and life time; The mother comes to literacy; Reflections; Registers of memory; Mass observation; Unwritten tales: five writers talk; Reflections; Domestic reading and writing; Letters and other things; Library books; Fictions and fantasy; Mothers, talking and writing; Reflections; Hide and seek: the search for illiteracy; Composing in talk; The literate accomplice.
  • A literacy spectrumIlliteracy: silhouettes and questions; Reflections; Family is more than mum and literacy is more than school; Blame and deficit; Teach the mother to reach the child; Family literacy: shifts in meaning; Mothers are the only parents; Exclusions and resistance; Mother-publishers; Reflections; Images and certificates: traces of a life; Certificates; Mothers are relative; Ambivalence; Teaching the mother; References; Mass Observation Direc.