Linking Families, Learning, and Schooling

Contents

Foreword
Learning Lessons from Our Children and Grandchildren
Yetta M. Goodman

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1
Introduction
Bobbie Kabuto & Prisca Martens

Section 1: Everyday Families, Everyday Learning

Chapter 2
What Do Those Marks Really Mean?: A Semiotic Perspective to Writing in a Bilingual Context
Bobbie Kabuto

Chapter 3
Whiteness, Discourse, and Early Childhood: An Ethnographic Study of Three Young Children's Construction of Race in Home and Community Settings
Erin T. Miller

Section 2: Families and Schooling

Chapter 4
The Struggle for Literacy: Leo's Story
Catherine Olsen Maderazo

Chapter 5
Preparing Teachers to Teach Other People's Children While Homeschooling Your Own: One Black Woman Scholar's Story
Marcelle M. Haddix

Chapter 6
My Gift to You is My Language: Spanish is the Language of My Heart
Julia Lopez-Robertson

Chapter 7
"I already know how to read!": Home and School Perceptions of Literacy
Prisca Martens

Chapter 8
At Home At School: Following Our Children
Kathleen Shannon & Patrick Shannon

Section 3: Parent-Researchers as Archeologists in Daily Family Life

Chapter 9
"They don't really know me": Mother-Daughter Insights for Researchers and Teachers
Susi Long & Kelli Long

Chapter 10
Looking Backward in Order to Look Forward: The Enduring Contribution of Parent Research
Marcia Baghban

Chapter 11
Researching Literate Lives
Jerome C. Harste & Carolyn L. Burke