Literacy for Empowerment: The Role of Parents in Children's Education

by Concha Delgado-Gaitan and Concha Concha Delgado-Gaitan University of California Davis USA.

Book Overview

Children's success in literacy is largely dependent on the active and systematic communications between parents and teachers. In this study the essence of literacy is observed in the Portillo Community when working class Mexican-American parents empowered each other by sharing their experiences to help their children in school. Utilizing their ability to read and interpret their reality the families collectively organized to transform their children's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850006636
• ISBN13: 9781850006633
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.