Promising practices for family involvement in schooling across the continents

This installment in the book series "Family, School, Community, Partnership", edited by Diana B. Hiatt-Michael, focuses on Promising Practices for Family Community Involvement Across the Continents.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Hiatt-Michael, Diana B. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., [2005]
SeriesFamily, school, community, partnership ; v. 4.
Subjects
Home and school > Cross-cultural studies.
School children > Family relationships > Cross-cultural studies.
Education > Parent participation > Cross-cultural studies.
Education > Parent Participation.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116670
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-752-7
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) : illustrations, charts

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Table of Contents:
  • Global overview of family-school involvement / Diana B. Hiatt-Michael
  • The cultural context of parental participation and Scandinavian/Western European issues / Birte Ravn
  • Community and parental involvement in Gambia, West Africa / Binta Colley
  • South African education : the growing impact of parental choice / Karen Selby
  • Family-school-community partnerships in Russia : traditions and innovations / Ida Jeltova and Yuri Gatanov
  • Brazilian perspectives on school and family partnerships / Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues Reali and Regina Maria Simões Puccinelli Tancredi
  • The place of family and community within schools in Quebec / Rollande Deslandes and Andre Lemieux
  • Neighbors across the border : parental involvement in Texas and Mexico / Arminta Lee Jacobson
  • Building family-school relationships in Australia and New Zealand : debates, dilemmas, and promising directions / Patricia Thomson
  • Parental involvement in East Asian schools / William Jeynes
  • The contribution of family involvement and investment on students' literacy performance : a comparative study of the United States and three Asian societies utilizing PISA / Esther Ho Sui-Chu.

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