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Children resisting deficit: What can children tell us about literate lives?
Global Studies of Childhood, Vol.8(4), pp.325-338
12/2018
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Abstract
Research has demonstrated that teachers who know more about the literate lives of their students outside of the classroom are more able to set up positive connections between home and school. In this article, we theorise the notion of ‘deficit’ discourses in education. Using two cases as examples, we seek to disrupt deficit discourses about children in communities of high poverty. The first case describes children’s responses when asked to draw and talk about learning to write, and highlights children’s explication of the role of the family in literacy learning. The second case describes an outside school media space where children engaged over time with a variety of new media and digital texts. These examples make the point that listening to young people can provide surprising insights into children’s aspirations and their understandings of the affordances of learning literacy. Our findings challenge the assumptions that underpin deficit understandings of children and young people growing up in communities of high poverty, and suggest that listening to children and young people in schools may well support the goal of providing quality schooling for all students.
Details
- Title
- Children resisting deficit: What can children tell us about literate lives?
- Creators
- Aspa Baroutsis - Griffith UniversityAnnette Woods - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication Details
- Global Studies of Childhood, Vol.8(4), pp.325-338
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Grant note
- This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) through its Linkage and Discovery programs - LP0990289 and DP150101240.
- Identifiers
- 991012992890602368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2018
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article