Ready for What?: Constructing Meanings of Readiness for Kindergarten (Suny Series, Early Childhood Education) (SUNY series, Early Childhood Education: Inquiries and Insights) - Softcover

Graue, M. Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791412040 ISBN 13: 9780791412046

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1992

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This book looks at readiness from a different perspective, arguing that we must move away from the readiness-as-child characteristic so prevalent in education and the popular press. Instead, readiness is explained as an idea constructed by parents, teachers, and children as they interact in their neighborhoods and communities.

Graue describes three communities in the same school district: a middle-class, suburban town of professionals; a rural, working-class community; and a group of Hispanic, working-class families making their way through their children's kindergarten experiences. In each setting, the local meaning of readiness is the underlying theme in the actions taken by parents and their attitudes about their children's first public school experience.

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M. Elizabeth Graue is Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791412040
• ISBN 13: 9780791412046
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 326
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