Overview
Discusses the critical role of Black and Latino parents in their young children’s academic socialization
Offers a strengths-based approach for laying groundwork to ensure academic success during early childhood and beyond
Provides a comprehensive overview of early academic skills/learning, focusing on young Black and Latino children
Addresses early literacy and language, mathematics, and social/emotional/behavior skills
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Academic socialization and school success
- African American parents and student achievement
- Children’s writing skills and Black and Latino families
- Early academic development and young Black and Latino students
- Executive functioning skills and Black and Latino children
- Home-school partnerships and student success
- Low-income Black and Latino families and education
- Math skills and Black home environments
- Math skills and Latino home environments
- Parental beliefs and academic success
- Parental involvement and young children’s academic development
- Preschool and Black and Latino children
- Reading skills and Black home environments
- Reading skills and Latino home environments
- School readiness and Black families
- School readiness and Latino families
- Social-emotional development and Black students
- Social-emotional development and Latino students
- Socioeconomic challenges and academic achievement
- Young Latino dual language learners and literacy environment
About this book
This book offers a strengths-based, family-focused approach to improving the educational performance and school experience of struggling Black and Latino students. The book discusses educational challenges faced by low-income families of color and the different strengths within Black and Latino family life that can affect these challenges. It focuses building on these strengths within the children’s home environments that can serve as a foundation for subsequent learning. The chapters describe a wide range of family practices and beliefs, including development of interventions to support families that promote early language and literacy, early mathematics, and social skills. The chapters also present quantitative and/or qualitative studies using a strengths-based approach to parents’ socialization of their children’s early academic skills.
Topics featured in this book include:
- Latino and Black parental resources, investments, and beliefs
- Academic socialization in the homes of Black and Latino preschool children
- Development of culturally-informed interventions to promote children’s school readiness skills
- Family-school partnerships as a tool for improving educational opportunities.
- Directions for future research
Academic Socialization of Young Black and Latino Children is a must-have resource for researchers, educators, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in diverse fields including education, developmental and school psychology, family studies, counseling psychology and social work, and sociology of culture.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan Sonnenschein, Ph.D., is a developmental and educational psychologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is a professor and graduate program director of the Applied Developmental Psychology program. Her research focuses on ways to promote at home and school the educational success of children from different demographic backgrounds. She is particularly interested in home experiences of children often at risk for difficulties in school (e.g., immigrants, low income, ELL, minority groups).
Brook E. Sawyer, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the College of Education at Lehigh University. She is an educational psychologist and teacher educator who conducts descriptive and intervention research on teachers’ and parents’ practices to support the language and literacy development of young vulnerable children, including children who live in poverty, dual language learners, and children with disabilities. She also focuses on interventions to develop collaborative relationships between parents and educators.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Academic Socialization of Young Black and Latino Children
Book Subtitle: Building on Family Strengths
Editors: Susan Sonnenschein, Brook E. Sawyer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04486-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04485-5Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04486-2Published: 11 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Educational Policy and Politics, Family