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Investigating The Place Of Children’S Home Literacy In The Ontario Kindergarten Curriculum: A Document Analysis, Hanaa Ghannoum
Investigating The Place Of Children’S Home Literacy In The Ontario Kindergarten Curriculum: A Document Analysis, Hanaa Ghannoum
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The Ontario Kindergarten programmatic curriculum was examined to determine and articulate how it represents children’s and families’ funds of knowledge and how it relates to home literacy and literacy learning at school. The Kindergarten Program (2016) was the primary source within the document analysis methodology. Funds of knowledge underpins this study as the theoretical framework. This study was driven by three questions: In what ways does programmatic curriculum, The Kindergarten Program (2016), connect (or not) literacy learning with children’s home language and literacy experiences from home? How are families depicted within (if at all) the programmatic curriculum in relation to …