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Hellsten, Meeri, Susan Markose and Colin Symes. 2011. ‘In this country education happen at the home’: two families in search of the instruments of appropriation for school success. Language and Intercultural Communication 11 (3) : 248–269.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This study discloses that for the children in the studied immigrant Lebanese-Muslim and Chinese family, the successful acquisition of mainstream literacies depended upon adult members' selective acquisition and transmission of what Bourdieu terms ‘the instruments of appropriation’, required to gain access to mainstream literacies.