Living as Mapmakers : Charting a Course with Children Guided by Parent Knowledge / / by Debbie Pushor.

• VerfasserIn: Pushor, Debbie.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

While teacher knowledge is well-researched and conceptualized, parent knowledge remains largely unstudied. In response, this book details Pushor’s conceptualization of parent knowledge, the unique knowledge that arises from the lived experiences of being a parent, knowledge that is relational, bodie...

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• About the Artwork
• Section 1: Parent Knowledge: A Parent’s Map of a Child
• Conceptualizing Parent Knowledge
• Mapping Parent Knowledge
• From Educator to Mother: My Personal Journey
• If Only You Knew My Child the Way I Do: Erica’s Story
• Big Dog or Little Dog: Rethinking My Beliefs and Practices as a Parent and Educator
• Section 2: Family Stories as Maps of Knowledge
• Beginning a Journey Together: First Connections with Families
• The Family-School Storytelling Connection
• Connections with All Families
• Walking Alongside Parents: Carson’s Story
• Section 3: Choosing a Map of First Nations and Métis Parent Knowledge
• “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”: A First Nations Perspective
• Wicihitowin: Finding My Place Alongside Parents in a Circle of Shared Responsibility
• Section 4: Being Both Guest and Host in Our Mapmaking with Families
• Looking Inward, Looking Outward: Rethinking Practice
• New Canadian Parents as Guest Hosts on School Landscapes: From Theoretical Underpinnings to Practices of Possibility
• Creating a Circular Map
• Section 5: Living in the Space of Transformation
• A Change of Consciousness: The Null Curriculum of Families
• The Map Changes, The Mapmaker Changes
• About the Contributors.