Community & Family-based Learning

In Community & Family-based Learning, researchers investigate how people learn in informal, community and family-based settings, with focus placed on relationships between learners, mediators, environments, and experiences. Specific areas of study include Early Childhood Influences on Learning in African American Children (see Henry), how children and adolescents learn about their environment in informal settings (see Hanson and Crowley), and familial practices that support preschool children's early language, literacy, and math development in ethnically diverse communities (see Leyva). See also Culturally Responsive Family Intervention Improves Latino Kindergarteners' Vocabulary and Approaches to Learning (see Leyva).

Additional topics include how numerical reasoning is developed in educational and home settings (see Libertus), see also Parent-child Interaction is Important for Effective Early Math Intervention (see Libertus), the impact of home and childcare policies on learning and socioemotional development (see Votruba-Drzal), and the influences of the home and classroom for exacerbating income disparities in achievement in early childhood (see Bachman).