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Curriculum as a safe place: Parental perceptions of new literacies in a rural small town school
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Corbett, M and Vibert, A, Curriculum as a safe place: Parental perceptions of new literacies in a rural small town school, Canadian journal of administration and policy, (114) pp. 6-24. ISSN 1207-7798 (2010) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
New literacies have challenged all players in the educational enterprise in many
different ways. Youth are now engaged in literacies that extend well beyond the
safe and respected traditional texts that their parents experienced in school. In this
research we analyze parents' perceptions of the relative educational value of their
children's different textual engagements both in and out of school. We find that
parents employed a textual hierarchy of educational value with the traditional
hard copy school textbook and literature at the top of the pyramid, and plastic
virtual and visual texts at the bottom. These assessments are understood within a
framework that employs the idea of safety to understand how parents navigate and
negotiate the often risky literate engagements their children enjoy.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | rural education, curriculum theory, parents, safety, literacies |
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Education systems |
| Research Field: | Continuing and community education |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in education |
| UTAS Author: | Corbett, M (Professor Michael Corbett) |
| ID Code: | 100553 |
| Year Published: | 2010 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2015-05-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2015-09-01 |
| Downloads: | 91 View Download Statistics |
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