[AAACE-NLA] research project

[Sarah Beaman-Jones]

Debbie,
You might want to look for some work by Victoria Purcell Gates.  She looked
for early literacy skills in homes where parents were not highly literate.
In one family, for example, the mom was just starting community college.
When she was with her kids, she watched music videos and did all her
studying after they were in bed.  In another family, the mom had not
graduated from high school, but she read the TV guide and wrote grocery
lists.  The kids who saw that literacy was useful were more apt to have
emergent literacy skills.

Sarah Beaman-Jones,
Literacy Program Developer
LIFT-Missouri
815 Olive Street, Suite 22
St. Louis, MO  63101

314-678-4443 ext. 206
800-729-4443
314-678-2938 [fax]
sbeaman at webster.edu
www.lift-missouri.org





On 12/12/07 10:40 AM, "Debbie Yoho" <yohogclc at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Dear Friends:  I am going to take a small risk here by asking for your advice.
> If I am on to something, I hope no one will steal my idea!
>  
> Turning Pages is thinking of applying for a federal research grant.  If we go
> forward with this, we will need your help and involvement.
>  
> We all agree, apparently, that low literacy tends to "run in families".  But
> lately I am not so sure.  In my small group of only five learners, two have
> grown children who finished school and went on to college.  One even graduated
> from West Point.  Another is a teacher.  And these weren't "special kids".
> ALL their siblings did well too.
>  
> So, given that these individuals had parent(s) who do not read well, and given
> that past research shows that the most influential factor on a child's success
> in school is the parent(s)' educational attainment,what accounts for their
> achievement?
>  
> That is the question I'd like to research.  If funded, this will be a
> qualitative case study conducted mostly by interviewing adult learners.  This
> list is full of creative, hard thinkers.  What is your immediate reaction to
> the idea of such a study?  Many thanks.
>  
> Debbie Yoho
> Division Director, TURNING PAGES/VOAC
> (formerly the Greater Columbia Literacy Council)
> Secretary, SC Association for Adult Literacy Education
> 803-765-2555 fax 803-799-8417
> PO Box 1447, Columbia, SC 29202
> yohogclc at earthlink.net
>  
> "True progress preserves order amid change and preserves change amid order."
> (John Morgan, You Can't Manage Alone)
>  
>  
> 
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