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Bringing Family Literacy to Incarcerated Settings: An Instructional Guide
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Bringing Family Literacy to Incarcerated Settings: An Instructional Guide
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The use of family literacy to provide the comprehensive family education portion of the Instructional Delivery System Model is described. Family literacy is "the learned, not innate, intergenerational process of sharing that occurs between parents and their children which supports that occurs between parents and their children which supports and expands the range of learning in a family" (p. 4). Sections of this document include: introduction -- the what and why of family literacy in incarcerated settings; range of program designs (e.g., academic preparation, parent/child interaction, caregiver connection, and community linkage); blueprint for implementation -- raising standards, funding, marketing, and staff development; and conclusions.