Home-School Relations: Working Successfully With Parents and Families - Softcover

Olsen, Glenn W.; Fuller, Mary Lou

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205367720 ISBN 13: 9780205367726

Publisher: Pearson, 2002

Synopsis

Home-School Relations examines the nature of the contemporary family and its relationship to the school and provides practical advice for developing strong home-school relationships.

This text discusses the need for educators to have positive working relationships with the students that they teach and describes the techniques they must use to understand the families from which their students come. In addition to covering the traditional topics of ethnic families, change in families, and parent-teacher communication, Olsen, Fuller, and their contributors delve further into the issues facing families today.

Poverty, advocacy, fathering and domestic violence and their effect on families are covered opening new paths of understanding for educators. In addition, diversity (cultural, racial, religious, and sexual orientation) is discussed, not only in a separate chapter, but throughout the text, to promote understanding of all students and their families. Unlike other texts in this field, Home-School Relations confronts the alarming statistics on poverty and how it affects children, and ultimately, their performance in schools. Home-School Relations is the best text available to prepare educators for all the forms of diversity they will encounter in the field.

Beyond its in-depth look at ever-evolving families, this text provides solid, practical examples of building good home-school partnerships and fostering familial involvement in schools. Specific examples of activities and strategies are presented, offering the educator and pre-service student a valuable professional resource.

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Home and School Relations offers strong coverage of the nature of contemporary families and their relationships with teachers and schools. Throughout this text that is organized topically, the authors provide practical techniques for developing strong relationships with families and solid examples of home and school partnerships and parent involvement.  It emphasizes the need for educators to have positive working relationships with the children they teach and describes the techniques they must use to understand the families from which their students come. The integration of diversity (cultural, racial, religious, and sexual orientation) through every chapter promotes understanding of all children and their families, including those with special needs.

 

In this fourth edition, you will find:

 

·         Coverage of the traditional topics of ethnic families, change in families, and parent-teacher communication.

 

·        Key contemporary issues facing families today and their effects including income level, alarming statistics on poverty and

            how it affects children and their performance in schools, advocacy, the father’s role, family and domestic

            violence, bullying and school violence, and parents’ perspectives on schools.

 

·         Expanded coverage of communications with parents and families, including current uses of technology.

 

·         The most recent information about children with special needs and the services provided by schools.

 

·         Pedagogical features such as Learning Outcomes, Case Studies, Reflections, and Children’s Literature.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0205367720
• ISBN 13: 9780205367726
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384