Many Families, Many Literacies: An International Declaration of Principles
Many Families, Many Literacies provides much-needed guidance on developing policies and practices that build on the strengths that families bring to any learning situation: their diverse languages, literacies, and complex problem-solving capabilities.
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At a time when family literacy policies and practices are confusingly fragmented and often deficit driven, Many Families, Many Literacies provides much-needed guidance on developing policies and practices that build on the strengths that families bring to any learning situation: their diverse languages, literacies, and complex problem-solving capabilities. Many Families, Many Literacies reclaims family literacy from the family literacy movement and asserts that society constructs the conditions of poverty in which many minority families are forced to live. It represents the opinions of forty-nine leading education experts and family literacy practitioners, including Lucille Fandel, Ken Goodman, Yetta Goodman, David Barton, Audrey N. Grant, Klaudia Rivera, Judith Kalman, Letta Matsiepe Mashishi, and many others. This edited collection is essential reading for any educator, researcher, or community-based practitioner concerned about the political implications of the family literacy movement.
AcknowledgmentsThe History of the DeclarationPreamble1Literacy Is Ordinary: A Family Against the Labels8The Rich and Multiple Literate Environments of Three Families10Some Perspectives on the Family19A Letter from Tomas Enguidanos22The Wind That Blows North: Families in a Mexican Migrant Community23An Invitation from Aimee26Mostly I'm Busy. But Every Chance I Get, I Try to Read30We're Doing Literacy Around and Around the Clock33Family Literacy: Questioning Conventional Wisdom37Oral and Written Language: Functions and Purposes43Literacy As Human Right: Literacy Practices in Brazil46Rewriting the Written48Sr. Gonzalo and His Daughters: A Family Tale from Mexico51Multiple Roads to Literacy56Literacy Education As Family Work62Biliteracy Development of a Chinese/English-Speaking Child65Reading Between the Lines71Where the Power Lies: The Colorado Experience83Reconstructing Teacher Views on Parent Involvement in Children's Literacy87Family Literacy Programmes and Home Literacy Practices101Soweto, South Africa: A Parent Involvement Model109Navajo Family Literacy112Local Knowledge, Families, and Literacy in a Navajo Bilingual School116That's Not Who We Are119El Barrio Popular Education Program128From Untapped Potential to Creative Realization: Empowering Parents133Standardized Tests in Family Literacy Programs142Who's Reading Whose Reading? The National Center for Family Literacy Evaluation Process149Program Evaluation: A Practitioner's Perspective152When Will the National Family Literacy Program Discussion Take Place? An Evaluator's Concerns153Developing a Framework for Program-Based Family Literacy Evaluation155Family Literacies: What Can We Learn from Talking with Parents?157Standardized Tests: What Family Literacy Programs Can Learn from Schools162What Do You Talk About All Day? La Clase Magica172Nudging the Door: The Light Is Brilliant on the Other Side177The Story of a Fifth-Grade Boy Born in Mexico179Types and Uses of Literacy Observed in Family Settings181Family Literacy Is Risky Stuff182What Do I Do Here?185A Day in the Life of a Family Literacy Teacher187The Urban Grass-Roots Think Tank: Adult Writing and Community Building188Family Treasures190A Letter from Kathy Day191Photographs192The Baby Cradle193The Rocking Chair193My Grandfather's Chaps194Libraries and Family Literacy195Learning Through Play at the Public Library196Starting Together: A Community Partnership199What About the Wider Social, Economic, and Political Factors?206Family Literacy and the Politics of Literacy207Partnerships with Linguistic Minority Communities211Debating Intergenerational Family Literacy: Myths, Critiques, and Counterperspectives216I Want to Ask a Question: Family Members Speak Out227Bibliography of Quotations231Participants in the International Forum on Family Literacy: Tucson, Arizona, 1994233Additional Contributors239
