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Helen Nixon School of Education Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies

Resourcing parents of infants to support literacy learning and development: an examination of textual networks and information pathways. Helen Nixon School of Education Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies University of South Australia helen.nixon@unisa.edu.au.

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Helen Nixon School of Education Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies

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  1. Resourcing parents of infants to support literacy learning and development: an examination of textual networks and information pathways Helen Nixon School of Education Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies University of South Australia helen.nixon@unisa.edu.au

  2. Conceptual resources • Network theory (Law, 2003; Malecki, 2002) • Text-based critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2003; Rogers, 2003) • Social semiotics: • geo-semiotics (Scollon & Scollon, 2003) • visual and multimodal semiotics (Kress & van Leeuwen, 1996, 2001) • semiotics of advertising (e.g. Kline, 1993; Leiss et al, 1990; Seiter, 1995)

  3. CLLD texts in Bounty Bag 1

  4. CLLD texts in Bounty Bag 2

  5. CLLD texts in Bounty Bag 3 Babycare Book

  6. CLLD texts in Bounty Bag 3

  7. CLLD ads in Mother&Baby

  8. Emerging, multiple and networked information sources

  9. Recurring themes • Education is costly, long-term and gives positional advantage • Educational success can be facilitated and accelerated with fun educational toys • Parents should learn what makes such toys ‘educational’ • It’s never too early to become an informed parent • It’s never too early begin to foster reading- and school-readiness

  10. CYWHS Government Health Department • Home visit in first weeks • Free books at first contact • Parenting courses • Health checks at 6, 18 and 24 months • Website with resources and dedicated expert writers • Parent telephone helpline

  11. Free health clinic book 1 BACK COVER FRONT COVER

  12. Free health clinic book 2 FRONT COVER INTRODUCTORY PAGES

  13. Right from the start … loving reading with your baby

  14. Parent as pedagogic subject in relation to early reading • The pictures in the book have been chosen from what research says about what babies like to look at. They have also been tried out with a group of babies. The text for parents tells you a little about why the pictures and words have been chosen. • Reading with babies brings together many of the things they need most to grow and develop–closeness, safety, touch, seeing, hearing and learning about sounds as well as gradually learning what they mean. …. They start to learn about the world and develop their thinking skills from looking at pictures and hearing words with you. Right from the start … loving reading with your baby. Free book issued to parents at first contact with CYWHS clinics.

  15. Textual networks and information pathways mother Website & other publications/media hospital Publisher Bounty Bag voucher Mother&Baby Target products

  16. Network analysis from situated texts: some trails CYWHS Health Clinic Parent help-line CYWHS & Parenting SA web-sites FREE BOOKS PAMPHLETS 1. Parent Easy Guides 3. Little Big Book Club 2. Local Library

  17. 1. Parent Easy Guides: on display; given out at health checks; recommended by CYWHS nurses and Parent Helpline staff

  18. 2. Local library CLLD resources and story time sessions promoted in CYWHS clinics. Site of access to Little Book Club resources

  19. Parent guides on how to read to children from birth to pre-school

  20. 3. Little Big Book Club: advertised in clinics, accessed via libraries, state’s daily newspaper & Kraft/vegemite website

  21. Little Big Book Club: It’s Rhyme Time book and DVD

  22. Little Big Book Club: It’s Rhyme Time bilingual texts

  23. Little Book Club: Little Aussie Reader Scrapbook 0-2 yearsparent guide & personalised record of rhymes, games & reading

  24. Summary • disparities

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