Expanding the Potential for Connected Learning Through Attending to Latino Parents' Discourses of Family Well-Being

• In Event: 46.085 - Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: 46.085-13 - Health, Wellness, and Schools

Abstract

Families today are bombarded by doctors, teachers and media discourses emphasizing parents roles in safekeeping the health and well-being of their young children, which often includes making sure they do not have too much “screen time” or play games that are too violent. Yet, educators and researchers also seek to leverage the new media practices of children today for academic and consequential learning. We argue that to connect and expand children’s new media repertoires across multiple academic, informal and home-based contexts, we need to attend to parents’ practices with digital media and the discourses of family well-being that circulate in households.

Authors

• Lisa Hope Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Daniela Kruel DiGiacomo, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley