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Record Nr.

UNISA996202229903316

Autore

Mace Jane

Titolo

Playing with time : mothers and the meaning of literacy / / Jane Mace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, Pa. : , : UCL Press, , 1998

ISBN

1-000-65887-2

1-000-67459-2

0-585-45688-7

0-203-50228-0

1-280-40680-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Disciplina

302.2244

306.874/3

Soggetti

Mother and child

Literacy

Mothers - Books and reading

Reading - Parent participation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures and boxes; Acknowledgements; Picture credits; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Literacy, mothers and time; Chapter 3 Registers of memory; Chapter 4 Domestic reading and writing; Chapter 5 Hide and seek: the search for illiteracy; Chapter 6 Family is more than mum and literacy is more than school; Chapter 7 Images and certificates: traces of a life; References; Appendix 1 Mass Observation Directive No. 46, November 1995; Appendix 2 Holy literacy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With a background of a reported decline in literacy standards, the author investigates the relationship between gender and literacy, revealing how families, and women in particular, feel pressurized to be responsible for their children's literacy.