Handbook of School-Family Partnerships

ISBN-13: 9780415963756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 544 str.

San Christenson;Christenson San

Opis

Family-school partnerships are increasingly touted as a means of improving both student and school improvement. This recognition has led to an increase in policies and initiatives that offer the following benefits: improved communication between parents and educators; home and school goals that are mutually supportive and shared; better understanding of the complexities impinging on children's development; and pooling of family and school resources to find and implement solutions to shared goals. This is the first comprehensive review of what is known about the effects of home-school partnerships on student and school achievement. It provides a brief history of home-school partnerships, presents evidence-based practices for working with families across developmental stages, and provides an agenda for future research and policy. Key features include:

• provides comprehensive, cross-disciplinary coverage of theoretical issues and research concerning family-school partnerships.
• describes those aspects of school-family partnerships that have been adequately researched and promotes their implementation as evidence-based interventions.
• charts cutting-edge research agendas & methods for exploring school-family partnerships.
• charts the implications such research has for training, policy and practice especially regarding educational disparities.

This book is appropriate for researchers, instructors, and graduate students in the following areas: school counseling, school psychology, educational psychology, school leadership, special education, and school social work. It is also appropriate for the academic libraries serving these audiences.

Spis treści

Part I: The Backdrop: Theoretical and Empirical Bases of Partnerships. Application of a Developmental/Ecological Model to Family-School Partnerships.  Motivation and Commitment to Family-School Partnerships. Elements of Healthy Family-School Relationships. Diversity in Families: Parental Socialization and Children's Development and Learning. Culturally-based Worldviews, Family Processes, and Family-School Interactions. Part II: Partnerships Across Children’s Development/Schooling Levels. The Home Learning Environment and Achievement During Childhood. Parent Involvement in Early Education. Partnering to Foster Achievement in Reading and Mathematics. A School-Family Partnership: Addressing Multiple Risk Factors to Improve School Readiness and Prevent Conduct Problems in Young Children. Stormshak, Dishion, Falkenstein, Family-centered, School-based Mental Health Strategies to Reduce Student Behavioral, Emotional, and Academic Risk. School-Family Partnerships to Promote Social and Emotional Learning. School Connectedness and Adolescent Well-being. Family-School Partnerships and Communication Interventions for Young Children with Disabilities. Creating School-Family Partnerships in Adolescence: Challenges and Opportunities. Part III: Driving the Research Agenda to Inform Policy and Practice. Debunking the Myth of the Hard-to-reach Parent. Family-centered Helpgiving Practices, Parent-professional Partnerships, and Parent, Family and Child Outcomes. Mapping Family-School Relations in Comprehensive School Reform Models and Charter School Designs: A Call for a New Research Agenda. Future Directions in Family-School Partnerships. Methodological Issues in Family-School Partnership Research. From Periphery to Center: A New Vision and Strategy for Family, School, and Community Partnerships. Moving Forward in School-Family Partnerships in Promoting Student Competence: From Potential to Full Impact.