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Publication Date: 2012
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Family Connections: Family Conversations in Informal Learning Environments
Riedinger, Kelly
Childhood Education, v88 n2 p125-127 2012
This article begins with two examples that demonstrate adult interactions with young learners during conversations in informal learning environments. Family visits to informal learning environments provide opportunities to learn together, interact, engage in conversations, and learn more about one another. This article explores family learning in informal environments and suggests ways for parents to guide young learners in conversations to make sense of exhibit and program content. Parents can maximize learning and draw children into equitable learning conversations through the strategies recommended in this article. In this way, children and parents can engage in shared meaning-making and co-construct understanding of exhibit and program content. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Parents, Children, Program Content, Speech Communication, Exhibits, Informal Education, Educational Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Parent Participation, Family Involvement, Family (Sociological Unit)
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