| Description |
xxii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Understanding children's worlds |
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Understanding children's worlds.
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| Contents |
1. Poverty, Language, and Early Intervention -- 2. The Communities, Families, and Schools -- 3. The Carolina Abecedarian Intervention Project -- 4. Language Use Out of School -- 5. Learning in Small Groups: The Core of the Curriculum -- 6. Tutorial Interaction Between Teacher and Child -- 7. The Effects of the Intervention on School-Related Skills -- 8. Success for All Children in School |
| Summary |
This book aims to provide a better understanding of how the culture of the classroom may contribute to children's learning and perception about school, and suggests some helpful strategies for the successful engagement between classroom and child that might create more successful schooling for all children |
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This book traces the transition to school of a group of poor African American children in semi-rural North Carolina who, because of their ethnicity and economic circumstances, were at risk of this transition being a bad one. Half these children were part of an intensive early daycare intervention program - designed to prepare them for formal schooling - and half were not. Through an examination of talk and interviews within their home community and with teachers and peers in the classroom, a portrait is painted of the transition to school for these children and their families. Without purposeful malice from other children or teachers, the children became less successful and more marginalized in the classroom, creating a deceptively benign environment for their less optimal treatment there |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-237) and index |
| Subject |
African American children -- Education (Elementary) -- North Carolina -- Case studies.
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African American children -- Education (Primary) -- North Carolina -- Case studies.
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Marginality, Social -- North Carolina -- Case studies.
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Poor children -- Education (Elementary) -- North Carolina -- Case studies.
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Poor children -- Education (Primary) -- North Carolina -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| LC no. |
96001119 |
| ISBN |
1557864829 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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1557864837 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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