2009-2010 Barbara Bush Fellows

L-R: Rose Anna Santos, Priya Darshini Kurup, Tiffany Lipsett & Jeeyoung Shin

Rose Anna Santos, a doctoral student in higher education administration, is interested in literacy development, especially how fathers facilitate literacy development within their families. She will research how fathers in family literacy programs, specifically Hispanic fathers, view parenting and literacy role-modeling to their children.

Priya Darshini Kurup, a doctoral student in human resource development, proposes to investigate the effect of work-life balance on parental participation and retention in family literacy programs, a challenge for many family literacy program organizers.

Tiffany Lipsett, a doctoral student in curriculum and culture with an emphasis on visual literacy, plans to examine the interaction between parents and children, and the social and cultural context in which literacy skills are learned in the home.

Jeeyoung Shin, a doctoral student in English as a Second Language, will conduct an intervention study with language-minority families using a conceptual framework to identify key issues to understand literacy patterns and experiences of language-minority families.

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