Fuller, Mary Lou

Home-school relations : working successfully with parents and families / [edited by] Mary Lou Fuller, Glenn Olsen. - Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1998. - xv, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.


Contents

Preface

Chapters:

1. An Introduction to Families

2. Families and their Functions- Past and Present

3. Diversity among Families

4. Parent's Perspectives on Parenting

5. Teachers and Parenting

6. Parent- Teacher Communication: Who's Talking?

7. Parents in the Schools

8. Families and their Children with Disabilities

9. Family Involvement Models

10.Education Law and Parental Rights

11. Family Violence

12. Poverty

13. Fatherhood, Society, and School

14. Home Education

15. Educational Policy and the Role of Advocacy

Index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0205181260 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Home and school--Case studies.--United States
Parent-teacher relationships--Case studies.--United States
Education, Elementary--Parent participation--Case studies.--United States
Early childhood education--Parent participation--Case studies.--United States
Special education--Parent participation--Case studies.--United States

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