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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The "Good" Parent in Relation to Early Childhood Literacy: Symbolic Terrain and Lived Practice
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Nichols, Sue; Nixon, Helen; Rowsell, Jennifer – Literacy, 2009
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…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Young Children, Parents, Emergent Literacy
Differential Recognition of Children's Cultural Practices in Middle Primary Literacy Classrooms
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Nixon, Helen; Comber, Barbara – Literacy, 2006
This paper argues that teachers' recognition of children's cultural practices is an important positive step in helping socio-economically disadvantaged children engage with school literacies. Based on 21 longitudinal case studies of children's literacy development over a 3-year period, the authors demonstrate that when children's knowledges and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Literacy, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies