A Reading Workshop in a Transitional Home: Power Influences on Parents’ Self-Efficacy

• In Event: Poster Session 14
  In Poster Session: Poster Session on the Social Context of Research on Schools and Communities

Abstract

This study explored parents’ experiences in supporting their preschool and elementary-aged children’s reading development while participating in a book-reading workshop at a transitional home. The parents in this workshop were homeless during the time of the program and were taught mainstream reading practices—those practices shown to foster reading success in school. This session describes parents' experiences specifically in regard to school-related, social, and economic power influences that affected parents' self-efficacy in supporting their children as developing readers.

Author

• Maria Elliker Crassas, Iowa State University