1st Edition
Reconceptualizing Curriculum, Literacy, and Learning for School-Age Mothers
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
146 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Reconceptualizing Curriculum, Literacy, and Learning for School-Age Mothers offers a portrait of classroom literacy practices and learning opportunities that are provided for school-age mothers in two different schools. Through a series of case studies of school sites, teachers, and students, this book presents evidence of how these at-risk students use literacy in complex ways in the classroom... Read more
Foreword by David Schaafsma
Introduction: The Education of School-age Mothers in the United States
- Public Noise around School-Age Motherhood
- Curriculum, Literacy and Learning for School-Age Mothers
- Reading with Their Bodies: Motherhood as a Reader Stance
- Rhetoric of the Future: Writing as a Site for Identity-Making
- More Than Mothers: Classroom Talk and the Negotiation of Relationships
- Schooling School-Age Mothers: Motherhood as a Curricular Theme
- A New Vision for the Education of School-Age Mothers
Biography
Heidi L. Hallman is a Professor of Curriculum and Teaching at the University of Kansas, USA.
Abigail P. Kindelsperger received a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction (2016) from the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
