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Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the Home‐School Knowledge Exchange Project and an introduction to this special issue on home–school knowledge exchange. The paper starts by situating the project within a number of contexts—those of UK educational research, national and international interest in home–school relationships, national and local priorities around literacy, numeracy and primary/secondary transfer, and theoretical work on ‘funds of knowledge’. The paper then goes on to show how these contextual factors influenced the project's aims and design. The paper ends by identifying a number of important themes and issues in the area of home–school knowledge exchange, and shows how these are illuminated by the papers presented in this volume.
Acknowledgements
The HSKE project was funded by the ESRC (reference number L139 25 1078) as part of TLRP. More information about the project and the programme can be found at http://www.home‐school‐learning.org.uk and http://www.tlrp.org. The authors are very grateful to the children, parents and teachers who participated in the project and to the LEAs of Cardiff and Bristol for their support. The HSKE project team consists of: Martin Hughes (project director), Andrew Pollard (who is also director of TLRP), Jane Andrews, Anthony Feiler, Pamela Greenhough, David Johnson, Elizabeth McNess, Marilyn Osborn, Mary Scanlan, Leida Salway, Vicki Stinchcombe, Jan Winter and Wan Ching Yee.