Preparing educators to involve families; from theory to practice

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

LB1048

2004-025362

1-4129-0909-0

Preparing educators to involve families; from theory to practice.

Title main entry. Ed. by Heather B. Weiss et al.

Sage Publications, [c]2005

182 p.

$64.95

Featuring contributions by 26 American academics, researchers, and consultants, this casebook brings together research by the Harvard Family Research Project on preparing educators in family involvement with findings from the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Successful Pathways through Middle Childhood. The text utilizes the Ecological Systems Theory as a framework, pairing child development theory with research-based teaching cases that address some of the difficulties schools face in establishing communication and effective relationships with low-income families whose racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds differ from those of school staff. For courses in elementary education, school psychology, child development, and family studies, and as a reference for researchers, psychologists, educators, and consultants.