Overview
- metaphor of maps …of mapmaking …of living as mapmakers, this book is a storied
- account of new practices in which parents and teachers engaged to enable parent
- knowledge to guide their work with children
- As an honest and vulnerable account of their journeys, not a book of best practice, the authors puzzle over the complexities and the successes of their work and the resulting impact on children, parents, and teachers
- Living as Mapmakers is an invitation to educators and parents to consider how to walk alongside one another, using both teacher and parent knowledge, for the benefit of children’s learning and wellbeing
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Family Stories as Maps of Knowledge
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Choosing a Map of First Nations and Métis Parent Knowledge
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Being Both Guest and Host in our Mapmaking with Families
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Living in the Space of Transformation
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About this book
While teacher knowledge is well-researched and conceptualized, parent knowledge remains largely unstudied. In response, this book details Pushor’s conceptualization of parent knowledge, the unique knowledge that arises from the lived experiences of being a parent, knowledge that is relational, bodied and embodied, intuitive, intimate, and uncertain. Drawing from her narrative inquiry into parent knowledge, Pushor shares and unpacks the stories of one participant as a way to provide a close up view of the parent knowledge a First Nations father held and used in living with and educating his children. Twelve teachers and parents then put forward their individual and contextual experiences immersed in explorations and use of parent knowledge, attending to the questions, How can what parents know enhance schooling experiences for children?How can parent knowledge, used alongside teacher knowledge, inform decisions made in schools and enhance curricular programming and outcomes for children?
Using the metaphor of maps … of mapmaking … of living as mapmakers, this book is a storied account of the new practices in which parents and teachers engaged to enable parent knowledge to guide their work with children. It is an honest and vulnerable account of their journeys. The authors puzzle over the complexities and the successes of their work and the resulting impact on children, parents, and teachers. This book is an invitation to educators and parents to consider how to walk alongside one another, using both teacher and parent knowledge, for the benefit of children’s learning and wellbeing.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Living as Mapmakers
Book Subtitle: Charting a Course with Children Guided by Parent Knowledge
Authors: Debbie Pushor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-361-2
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-361-2Published: 21 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 232
Topics: Education, general