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Challenging “Best Practices” in Family Literacy and Parent Education Programs: The Development and Enactment of Mothering Knowledge among Puerto Rican and Latina Mothers in Chicago
Author(s) -
Johnson Laura Ruth
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01044.x
Subject(s) - puerto rican , ethnography , literacy , family literacy , sociology , gender studies , literacy education , mexican americans , parent education , psychology , ethnic group , pedagogy , developmental psychology , anthropology
This article discusses the findings of an ethnographic research study exploring the experiences of Puerto Rican women attending a family literacy program in Chicago. In particular, the study investigated the repositories of knowledge and information available to participating women that figured into the development of their notions about parenting, in the process posing these various trajectories against the types of knowledge and approaches usually promoted within family literacy and parent education programs. [teen mothers, family literacy programs, parent education, Puerto Rican mothers, Chicago, Latino/a communities]