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Kabuto, Bobbie – Reading Research Quarterly, 2016
This article highlights one mother-son case study that was part of a larger study, Revaluing Readers and Families (Kabuto, [Kabuto, B., 2009], [Kabuto, B., 2015]). Here the author focuses on how the mother, Terry, interpreted her 7-year-old son Peter's oral reading performances and how her interpretation led her to construct a label around a…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Mothers, Sons, Parent Child Relationship
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Merrill, Natalie; Gallo, Emily; Fivush, Robyn – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
Family dinnertime conversations are key settings where children learn behavior regulation, narrative skills, and knowledge about the world. In this context, parents may also model and socialize gender differences in language. The present study quantitatively examines gendered language use across a family dinnertime recorded with 37 broadly…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Family Environment, Family Life, Eating Habits
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Lewis, Victoria; Miller, Andy – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2011
Despite the centrality of conversations in the practice of educational psychologists, there are very few published accounts that utilise "live" data captured during professional consultations. This paper employs mixed research methods, combining a quantitative Content Analysis with the qualitative approaches of Conversation Analysis and…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Psychology, Research Methodology, Psychologists
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Schwartz, Karen D.; Lutfiyya, Zana M. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2009
Our society treats people with disabilities in an inequitable manner when compared with non-disabled people. This marginalisation is especially telling in the area of end-of-life issues. The confounding of disability with terminal illness can support practices of encouraging death via assisted suicide and other means for people who, although…
Descriptors: Terminal Illness, Suicide, Disabilities, Discourse Analysis
Lewis, Tisha Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation examines the digital literacy practices of an urban African-American family. Using an ethnographic case study approach (Stake, 2000), this qualitative study explores the multiple ways a mother (Larnee) and son (Gerard) interacted with digital literacies in the home. Situated within the framework of sociocultural traditions from…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Oral Language, Discourse Analysis, Family Literacy