Grandmothers as orchestrators of early language and literacy lessons
Ruby, Mahera; Gregory, Eve E.; Kenner, Charmian and Al-Azami, Salman.
2010.
Grandmothers as orchestrators of early language and literacy lessons.
In: Vally Lytra and Peter Martin, eds.
Sites of Multilingualism: Complementary Schools in Britain Today.
Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books, pp. 57-68.
ISBN 978-1-85856-454-8
[Book Section]
This chapter discusses how a grandmother in the British Bangladeshi community of Tower Hamlets, East London, enables all the children in her home-based Bengali class to play a role in the lesson. This unique intergenerational relationship has been largely absent from previous research studies.
Item Type | Book Section |
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Keywords | intergenerational learning, home learning, community languages, grandparents, Bengali |
Departments, Centres and Research Units | Educational Studies > Centre for Language, Culture and Learning |
Date Deposited | 23 Nov 2010 14:36 |
Last Modified | 27 Jun 2017 09:13 |
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