Chapter 11 Working within, against, and beyond the Systems That Uphold Kindergarten Readiness

Centering Families’ Aspirations in the Transition to School

In: Advancing Critical Pedagogy and Praxis across Educational Settings
Authors:
Katie A. Mathew
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Vera J. Lee
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Andrea R. DiMola
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Cory D. Johnson
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Pages:
253–272
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689619_012

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Abstract

The issue of children’s readiness for kindergarten is a contested topic, with dominant school-based definitions focusing on a children’s performance on a constrained set of academic and social emotional skills. In this chapter, we describe a kindergarten transition program, funded through a federal grant and anchored within a university, which utilized an asset-based approach to working with families and helping to prepare children for kindergarten. In this community-school-university project we centered the strengths and aspirations of families in designing and implementing a summer transition to kindergarten program.

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Series:  Urban Education, Cultures and Communities, Volume: 4
Cover Advancing Critical Pedagogy and Praxis across Educational Settings
E-Book ISBN:
9789004689619
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
06 Nov 2023

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