| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Primavera, Angela Helene
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| Author's Email Address |
angi@vt.edu |
| URN |
etd-05032002-161217 |
| Title |
The Life of a Website: An Inquiry into Parent-Teacher Communication |
| Degree |
Master of Science |
| Department |
Human Development |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Fu, Victoria R. |
Committee Chair |
| Hill, Lynn T. |
Committee Member |
| Meszaros, Peggy S. |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- Early Childhood Education
- Reggio Emilia Approach
- Technology
- Parent Teacher Communication
- website
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| Date of Defense |
2002-04-22 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to document and examine the use of technology to facilitate communication among the three protagonists of learning – parents, teachers, and children in an early childhood education classroom. Specifically, the process of the co-construction of a website, by parents and teachers and subsequent use of the website for information exchange and parent involvement was documented and examined by the researcher using ethnographic methodologies.
The study provides a description of the process of co-constructing the website. Through this description, the researcher came to better understanding of developing a website, parent-teacher communication, children and their learning, and herself as a teacher-researcher. The study includes examples of the website pages as well as recommendations and implications for future use of a classroom website.
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