Exploring How Mathematics and Literacies Homework is Taken Up the Context of After School/Summer Programs

Our current research is focused on homework policies, how teachers enact such policies, and how homework impacts family life. Extending that work into this proposed MITACS research project, we aim to examine after-school and summer programs and how such programs are connected to schools and homework. This project will provide insights into how mathematics and literacy are taken up outside of the context of school. The partner organization will provide a space for an after school/summer program where an intern will work with children in mathematics and literacy. The project will recruit an intern to help organize and support new and existing programs with the partner organization. The proposed research aims to: a) investigate how mathematics and literacies homework is taken up the context of after school/summer programs (b) examine students’ perceptions of what constitutes math and literacy and (c) support learning during the summer months.

Faculty Supervisor:

Carolyn Clarke

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Partner:

Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

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