Professor Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK)
Dealing with parents is often harder than dealing with the pupils themselves. This can cause a lot of anxiety and distress amongst teachers. Stern offers practical advice on how to involve parents with school life. He demonstrates how this involvement leads to improved relations thereby alleviating not only the stress of dealing with parents but also reducing the teacher's workload.
- Understand parents' needs. - Develop roles that benefit parents and school. - Relate positively with all parents - even the 'hard-to-reach'.
Dealing with parents is often harder than dealing with the pupils themselves. This can cause a lot of anxiety and distress amongst teachers. Stern ...
Professor Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK), Professor Christopher A. Sink (Western Washington University
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness is the first major account integrating research on solitude, silence and loneliness from across academic disciplines and across the lifespan. The editors explore how being alone – in its different forms, positive and negative, as solitude, silence and loneliness – is learned and developed, and how it is experienced in childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. Philosophical, psychological, historical, cultural and religious issues are addressed by distinguished scholars from Europe, North and Latin America, and Asia.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness is the first major account integrating research on solitude, silence and loneliness from a...