ERIC Number: EJ933429
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 22
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"In This Country Education Happen at the Home": Two Families in Search of the "Instruments of Appropriation" for School Success
Markose, Susan; Symes, Colin; Hellsten, Meeri
Language and Intercultural Communication, v11 n3 p248-269 2011
The article analyses ethnographic data from the study of the home literacy practices of two immigrant families, a Lebanese-Muslim and a Chinese family. It explores the experiences of the immigrant families as they blend the pedagogical practices and behaviours of their own cultures with those of the mainstream culture to ensure academic success in dominant literacies. Data reveal that for the families in this study, the acquisition of mainstream literacies was dependent on adult members selectively acquiring and transmitting what Bourdieu calls 'the instruments of appropriation' needed to access mainstream literacies. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Ethnography, Immigrants, Teaching Methods, Family Environment, Literacy, Muslims, Asians, Cultural Influences, Academic Achievement, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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