All Outputs (25)
The home school knowledge exchange project: Linking home and school to improve children's literacy (2008)
Journal Article
The Government is urging teachers to engage more closely with families and is promoting the concept of the 'extended' school. This article reports on the literacy strand of the Home School Knowledge Exchange (HSKE) project, directed by Professor Mart... Read More about The home school knowledge exchange project: Linking home and school to improve children's literacy.
Professional researcher or a 'good guest'? Ethical dilemmas involved in researching children and families in the home setting (2006)
Journal Article
In this article we explore our experiences of researching children and families in the home setting. We trace the impact of the home setting on some ethical and methodological issues which arose in the course of conducting our field work and consider... Read More about Professional researcher or a 'good guest'? Ethical dilemmas involved in researching children and families in the home setting.
Children's 'funds of knowledge' and their real life activities: Two minority ethnic children learning in out-of-school contexts in the UK (2006)
Journal Article
In this paper we explore the concept of 'funds of knowledge' used by Moll and Greenberg (1990) in the US to recognize and value expertise located within minority ethnic communities and apply it to the out-of-school learning engaged in by two primary... Read More about Children's 'funds of knowledge' and their real life activities: Two minority ethnic children learning in out-of-school contexts in the UK.