School Readiness in a Multicultural Context: an Exploration of the Issues Using Cultural Psychology as an Appropriate Methodology

• Authors: Errol Sundelowitz , Carol Macdonald

Abstracts

EN

Historically there have been inequities in access to school in South Africa. Differences in languages have also contributed to difficulties. In the present study a Grade One class was observed for a term as they entered formal schooling. Cultural psychology was used as the method, developing a description of the context and narrowing the observations to ten and then five children. Five school homes visits were done and one of these case studies is described here. Given the socio-economic literacy context, the child did extremely well, being self-motivated and supported by an aware single parent. The usefulness of the Cultural Psychological method is described.

Keywords

EN

School readiness; Cultural Psychology; school literacy; parental involvement; primary/elementary school; reading; literacy; methodology

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 131-144

Dates

published

2006

Contributors

author

Errol Sundelowitz

• University of Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

author

Carol Macdonald

• University of the Witwatersrand, Republic of South Africa

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.06.10.3.10

Biblioteka Nauki

29520308