Literacy and mothering : how women's schooling changes the lives of the world's children
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Literacy and mothering : how women's schooling changes the lives of the world's children
（Child development in cultural context）（Oxford paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 2016, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and index
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Women's schooling is strongly related to child survival and other outcomes beneficial to children throughout the developing world, but the reasons behind these statistical connections have been unclear. In Literacy and Mothering, the authors show, for the first time, how communicative change plays a key role: Girls acquire academic literacy skills, even in low-quality schools, which enable them, as mothers, to understand public health messages in the mass
media and to navigate bureaucratic health services effectively, reducing risks to their children's health. With the acquisition of academic literacy, their health literacy and health navigation skills are enhanced, thereby reducing risks to children and altering interactions between mother and child.
Assessments of these maternal skills in four diverse countries - Mexico, Nepal, Venezuela, and Zambia - support this model and are presented in the book.
Chapter 1 provides a brief history of mass schooling, including the development of a bureaucratic Western form of schooling. Along with the bureaucratic organization of healthcare services and other institutions, this form of mass schooling spread across the globe, setting new standards for effective communication - standards that are, in effect, taught in school. Chapter 2 reviews the demographic and epidemiological evidence concerning the effects of mothers' education on survival, health, and
fertility. In this chapter, the authors propose a model that shows how women's schooling, together with urbanization and changes in income and social status, reduce child mortality and improve health. In Chapter 3, the authors examine the concept of literacy and discuss how its meanings and
measurements have been changed by educational research of the last few decades. Chapter 4 introduces the four-country study of maternal literacy. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 present the findings, focusing on academic literacy and its retention (Chapter 5), its impact on maternal health literacy and navigation skills (Chapter 6), and changes in mother-child interaction and child literacy skills (Chapter 7). Chapter 8 presents a new analysis of school experience, explores policy implications, and
recommends further research.
Table of Contents
Foreword By Michael Cole
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Theoretical Background: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Chapter 1 The Rise and Spread of Western Schooling
Chapter 2 Women's Schooling and Social Change in the Developing World after 1950
Chapter 3 Re-Defining Literacy: A Theory of Bureaucratic Schooling
Part II. Maternal Literacy in Less Developed Countries
Chapter 4 Contexts of Mothers' Lives
Chapter 5 Retention of Academic Literacy Skills
Chapter 6 Mothers as Pupils in Health Care Settings
Chapter 7 Mothers as Teachers at Home
Part III. Conclusions: Processes of Global Change
Chapter 8 Communicative Processes and Maternal Behavior
Appendix A: Literacy Assessment Methods
Appendix B: Additional Tables
References
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"