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Georgina Veevers-Williams – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2025
This research critically reflects on co-facilitating a perinatal singing program in a regional community in Victoria, challenging traditional adult education models. Utilising Kolb (1984) and Brookfield's (2005) reflective lenses, and Kemmis et al.'s (2004) participatory praxis cycle (PAOR), co-facilitators (a mother-daughter dyad) interrogated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pregnancy, Mothers, Perinatal Influences
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Emily Machado; Grace Cornell Gonzales; Lauren Plitkins – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study explores the translingual writing and making practices of bilingual mothers and their children in a library-based storytelling workshop, where writing and language were positioned as two of many materials that could be used to share stories. Situating this work within literature that positions libraries as "pockets of hope"…
Descriptors: Library Services, Intergenerational Programs, Code Switching (Language), Translation
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Flores, Tracey T. – Urban Education, 2022
This paper shares the stories of Latina mothers and daughters as they participarted in Somos Escritoras, a creative space, that invites them to write and perform stories from their lived experiences. At workshops, girls and their mothers crafted writing and created artwork that examines and critiques the many ways to express and define themselves.…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Mothers, Daughters, Intergenerational Programs
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Gonzales, Grace Cornell; Machado, Emily; Plitkins, Lauren – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2023
Family literacy programs are potential spaces of empowerment for transnational families, yet often draw from deficit logics that fail to acknowledge the rich language and literacy practices of Latinx communities. We brought together theories of critical literacy and theories of mothering as critical work to document how transnational Latina…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Programs, Hispanic Americans, Immigrants
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Leong, Anne Day; Berzin, Stephanie Cosner; Hawkins, Summer Sherburne – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Head Start is a federally funded early childhood education programme that takes a unique 2-generation approach to working with families. Family engagement in early education like Head Start has been shown to improve academic and behavioural outcomes in children, with particular beneficial effects in the children of immigrant parents. This study…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Participation, Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education
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Reese, Elaine; Fivush, Robyn; Merrill, Natalie; Wang, Qi; McAnally, Helena – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Adolescents' intergenerational narratives--the stories they tell about their mothers' and fathers' early experiences--are an important component of their identities (Fivush & Merrill, 2016; Merrill & Fivush, 2016). This study explored adolescents' intergenerational narratives across cultures. Adolescents aged 12 to 21 from 3 cultural…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Intergenerational Programs, Personal Narratives, Family (Sociological Unit)