FAMILY LITERACY PROGRAMS
Surveys have shown that millions of adults in the United States are functionally illiterate. Parental education has a major impact on the learning outcomes of their children. Family literacy programs aim to serve parents and children by providing educational services that can benefit the whole family. Additionally, family literacy programs tend to have a lower recidivism rate compared to other adult basic education programs.
For more information and suggestions for improving family literacy programs, see the research below.
For more information and suggestions for improving family literacy programs, see the research below.
Transformative Multiculturalism in Family Literacy Programs
ABSTRACT: The United States has an entrenched multigenerational illiteracy and low-literacy problem (Lunze & Paasche-Orlow, 2014) that has inspired three decades of family literacy programs. However, family literacy programming is often planned without consideration of the forms of social and systemic oppression faced by their target demographics. This typically results in failure to recognize the plurality of cultural perspectives, epistemologies, and unique strengths that diverse participants can offer. This paper argues that by effectively implementing Nieto and Bode’s (2008) seven characteristics of multicultural education educators and administrators of family literacy programs may create programs that can offer real social transformation.
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As a part of this paper and research project, I developed a Multicultural Education Assessment based on Nieto and Bode's (2008) characteristics of multicultural education.
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Click here to download "Transformative Multiculturalism in Family Literacy Programs"
As a part of this paper and research project, I developed a Multicultural Education Assessment based on Nieto and Bode's (2008) characteristics of multicultural education.
Click here to download "Multicultural Education Assessment"
Intergenerational Cycles of Low Literacy and Poverty and Solutions through Family Literacy Programs: A Review of the Literature
ABSTRACT: This paper synthesizes data from the 2016 Program for the International Assessment for Adult Competencies (PIAAC), the 2002 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), and literature on adult and intergenerational literacy, social mobility, and economic equality. The results of the PIAAC revealed that the United States lags behind other developed nations in literacy. Compounding this data, the United States had one of the highest correlations between parental educational attainment and a respondent’s literacy score. This indicates that low literacy has a strong intergenerational component. Further, educational attainment is closely related to earnings potential entwining and perpetuating low literacy and poverty across generations. This paper examines family literacy programs as an effective strategy for breaking the intergenerational cycle of limited literacy and poverty.
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Click here to download "Intergenerational Cycles of Low Literacy and Poverty and Solutions through Family Literacy Programs: A Review of the Literature"