About this ebook
Topics featured in this book include:
- Latino and Black parental resources, investments, and beliefs
- Academic socialization in the homes of Black and Latino preschool children
- Development of culturally-informed interventions to promote children’s school readiness skills
- Family-school partnerships as a tool for improving educational opportunities.
- Directions for future research
Academic Socialization of Young Black and Latino Children is a must-have resource for researchers, educators, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in diverse fields including education, developmental and school psychology, family studies, counseling psychology and social work, and sociology of culture.
About the author
Susan Sonnenschein, Ph.D., is a developmental and educational psychologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is a professor and graduate program director of the Applied Developmental Psychology program. Her research focuses on ways to promote at home and school the educational success of children from different demographic backgrounds. She is particularly interested in home experiences of children often at risk for difficulties in school (e.g., immigrants, low income, ELL, minority groups).
Brook E. Sawyer, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the College of Education at Lehigh University. She is an educational psychologist and teacher educator who conducts descriptive and intervention research on teachers’ and parents’ practices to support the language and literacy development of young vulnerable children, including children who live in poverty, dual language learners, and children with disabilities. She also focuses on interventions to develop collaborative relationships between parents and educators.
