The ‘good’ parent in relation to early childhood literacy: symbolic terrain and lived practice     

Sue Nichols  Helen Nixon  Jennifer Rowsell 《Literacy》2009,43(2):65-74

In this paper we consider the place of early childhood literacy in the discursive construction of the identity(ies) of ‘proper’ parents. Our analysis crosses between representations of parenting in texts produced by commercial and government/public institutional interests and the self‐representations of individual parents in interviews with the researchers. The argument is made that there are commonalities and disjunctures in represented and lived parenting identities as they relate to early literacy. In commercial texts that advertise educational and other products, parents are largely absent from representations and the parent's position is one of consumer on behalf of the child. In government‐sanctioned texts, parents are very much present and are positioned as both learners about and important facilitators of early learning when they ‘interact’ with their children around language and books. The problem for which both, in their different ways, offer a solution is the “not‐yet‐ready” child precipitated into the evaluative environment of school without the initial competence seen as necessary to avoid falling behind right from the start. Both kinds of producers promise a smooth induction of children into mainstream literacy and learning practices if the ‘good parent’ plays her/his part. Finally, we use two parent cases to illustrate how parents' lived practice involves multiple discursive practices and identities as they manage young children's literacy and learning in family contexts in which they also need to negotiate relations with their partners and with paid and domestic work.  相似文献   

Parents resourcing children’s early development and learning     

Sue Nichols  Helen Nixon  Valerie Pudney  Sari Jurvansuu 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2009,29(2):147-161

Parents deal with a complex web of choices when seeking and using knowledge and resources related to their young children’s literacy development. Information concerning children’s learning and development comes in many forms and is produced by an increasingly diverse range of players including governments, non‐government organisations and commercial businesses. This study used a survey, interview and artefact collection to investigate mothers’ and fathers’ reported activities in seeking, accessing, producing and circulating information and resources related to children’s learning and development. Differences were found relating to parent gender and level of education. Parents’ resourcing activities are also shaped by their particular goals for their children.  相似文献   

Becoming ourselves     

Jon Nixon 《Teaching in Higher Education》2018,23(7):902-907

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‘Good books’: is there a future for academic writing within the educational publishing industry?     

Jon Nixon 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2005,26(1):91-103

This paper draws on questionnaire responses received (via e‐mail) during the period 2002–2003 from senior commissioning editors located within seven of the major UK publishing outlets. Drawing on the analytical framework of an earlier study by Nixon (1999 Nixon, J. (1999). Teachers, writers, professionals. Is there anybody out there. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20(2): 207–221. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar]), it focuses on the mediation of educational studies by market forces operating within and upon the educational publishing industry. More specifically it explores issues relating to the construction of readership, authorship and editorship within that force field of market pressures. Central to the argument is the claim that, in its increasing exposure to market forces, the public space afforded by educational publishing is now highly restrictive. The paper concludes with a call for a sustained debate on the future of academic publishing in general, and educational publishing in particular.  相似文献   

“Always a dance going on in the stone”: An interview with Russel Hoban     

Rhonda M. Bunbury 《Children‘s Literature in Education》1986,17(3):139-149

At the time of this interview Russell Hoban had published fifty-two books for children and five books for adults. The interview was recorded on videotape for the interest of distanced off-campus students of children's literature at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.Rhonda Bunbury is a lecturer in Literature and Language Education at Deakin University in Australia. She was Director of the national reading project, Children's Choice in Australia, 1981–85. Her publications include the open campus courses in children's literature, entitled The Whole Story, More Than A Story, The Power of Story (1980), and Taught not Caught, Looking at Literature (1986).  相似文献   

The Educational Whirl     

Rolland H. Upton  C. W. Roberts  Walter S. McColley  Robert B. Nixon  Effa E. Preston  Kermit Eby 《Clearing house (Menasha, Wis.)》2013,86(2):86-87

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Sexuality in Older Adults: Effect of an Education Intervention on Attitudes and Beliefs of Residential Aged Care Staff     

Michael Bauer  Linda McAuliffe  Rhonda Nay  Carol Chenco 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(2):82-91

The sexual needs and wellbeing of older people living in residential aged care receives scant attention in practice, is easily dismissed by care staff, and remains a significant challenge for aged care service providers. This study reports on the evaluation of an education program delivered to residential aged care nurses to improve their knowledge about, and attitudes towards, older people's sexuality in this context. Participants' attitudes and beliefs towards older people expressing their sexuality in long-term care, including same sex couples and people with dementia, were more permissive following education. Findings further underscore the value of sexuality education as an important factor in dispelling the commonly held negative views of residential aged care staff about older people expressing their sexuality, thereby improving staff responses to this issue.  相似文献   

Paired Writing: A Framework for Effective Collaboration     

Keith Topping  Jillian Nixon  Jennifer Sutherland  Fiona Yarrow 《Literacy》2000,34(2):79-89

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Editorial Note     

Judith M. Nixon  Susanne K. Clement 《资料收集管理》2019,44(1):1-2

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Editorial Note     

Susanne K. Clement  Judith M. Nixon 《资料收集管理》2018,43(2):87-88

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