Engaging Families in Learning
CI214 Show Notes
In Circulating Ideas, Episode 214, I chatted with Elena Lopez, Bharat Mehra, and Maggie Caspe, editors of A Librarian's Guide to Engaging Families in Learning, about how they first got involved with libraries, the benefits of family engagement, and adapting in times of crisis.
You can purchase the book here!
Global Family Research Project is excited to share a new report on the next generation of family engagement.
Preparing Educators to Engage Families Case Studies Using an Ecological Systems Framework
An earlier book from Dr. Elena Lopez on family engagement.
Dr. Bharat Mehra's homepage at the University of Alabama.
Dr. Margaret Caspe is the Research Consultant for the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE).
Reimagining Library-School Partnerships to Promote Family Engagement, Childhood Education, 2018
Innovation often means finding new ways to make better use of resources that already exist in our communities. A new initiative to connect schools and libraries was just the right catalyst to enhance family engagement. The New York Public Library (NYPL), which has 88 neighborhood branches across The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, was one partner. This article describes how the NYPL developed a project-based learning approach to connect teachers, librarians, and children and their families.
Community STEM Collaborations That Support Children and Families, Afterschool Alliance, 2020
Youth are natural scientists at birth, discovering and exploring their world and trying to make sense of it. A child's education is not limited to just the time they spend in the classroom. Children learn at home with their families, in public libraries, or through out-of-school-time experiences provided at community centers and in afterschool and summer learning programs, and even on vacations. In this paper, the authors endeavor to make the case that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) is an ideal subject area that can engage children with fun, active learning activities. It is also an important societal area around which parents, librarians, and OST providers can collaborate and complement the work of schools.
Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning
Co-edited by Dr. Margaret Caspe:
The technology revolution has made it critical for all children to understand science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or risk being left behind. Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning explores how families, schools, and communities can join together to promote student success in STEM by building organized and equitable pathways for family engagement across all of the settings in which students learn – including, schools, early childhood programs, homes, libraries and museums –from the earliest years through adolescence.
Recirculated
Dr. R. David Lankes wrote the foreword to A Librarian's Guide to Engaging Families in Learning, and he has been a guest on the show a number of times.
201: David Lankes – Forged in War
In this episode, I chatted with Lankes about his book, Forged in War: How a Century of War Created Today's Information Society, his new position at the University of Texas at Austin, whether or not libraries are neutral (spoiler: they're not), knowledge infrastructure, and how the wars of the 20th century shaped propaganda, how data is collected and used, and the development of our information society, from telegraphs to the internet.
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