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  • Yarning space: Leading literacy learning through family-school partnerships

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    Flueckiger, Beverley
    Diamond, Pat
    Jones, Will
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    Diamond, Patrick
    Fluckiger, Bev
    Year published
    2012
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    Effective partnerships between parents , teachers and the community have universally been heralded as crucial to improving young Indigenous Australians' participation in early childhood education and their literacy development. This study of one remote preschool setting identifies the features that successfully framed family- school and community-led partnerships there. Our account is based on reported experiences with Parents and Learning (PaL), a long-established program, and Mums n Bubs, a recent initiative in the community preschool. Mothers said they felt empowered when equal value and respect were accorded to ...
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    Effective partnerships between parents , teachers and the community have universally been heralded as crucial to improving young Indigenous Australians' participation in early childhood education and their literacy development. This study of one remote preschool setting identifies the features that successfully framed family- school and community-led partnerships there. Our account is based on reported experiences with Parents and Learning (PaL), a long-established program, and Mums n Bubs, a recent initiative in the community preschool. Mothers said they felt empowered when equal value and respect were accorded to them as key participants in what we have described as a 'yarning space'. This was a jointly constructed space and an intercultural strategy centred on the preschool where everyone listened carefully and respectfully to each other, helping to build and lead a literacy learning community. The co-researchers were privileged to be invited into this space to hear the mothers speak with pride of their achievements.
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    Journal Title
    Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
    Volume
    37
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Early Childhood Australia. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Education systems
    Specialist studies in education
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/48472
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