Playing With Time : Mothers And The Meaning Of Literacy.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mace, Jane
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 1998.
Subjects:
Mother and child.
Literacy.
Mothers > Books and reading.
Reading > Parent participation.
Literacy
Mother and child
Mothers > Books and reading
Reading > Parent participation
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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