The Family-School Connection: Theory, Research, and Practice - Couverture souple

Bruce Ryan; Gerald Adams; Thomas Gullotta; Roger Weissberg; Robert Hampton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803973071 ISBN 13 : 9780803973077

Editeur : SAGE Publications, Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Currently, only about 50% of American youths live in traditional two-parent, first-marriage families. This fact, combined with often bleak economic and social realities, creates the backdrop of interactions between families, children, and schools are examined in this probing volume. Answering a need for evaluative research in this area of increasing public interest, the contributors build a model for evaluation, focusing on the dynamics of family-school connections. How is school achievement influenced by parent-child interactions and the family environment? How do school, family, community, and peer-group connections affect early adolescents? What is the family′s role in the success of learning-disabled youth or in school truancy? What effect does parental discord and divorce have on a child′s learning? These questions, as well as proposals for intervention and prevention, create the crux of this book designed to inform and motivate readers to respond to one of our country′s most fundamental social concerns. Vital reading for everyone who wants to better understand child-school-community interaction, this book especially warrants reading by students, researchers, and other professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, psychology, and social work. "The book should be read by professionals who have contact with schools as part of their brief; by those educators who train the new generation of social workers, psychologists, and teachers; and by researchers who seek to understand the tapestry of social influences on children′s development. The book is worth buying alone for the fruits of great scholarship evident in the extensive lists of up-to-date references at the end of each chapter, and in a superb appendix that offers a tour de force of a 19-page bibliography on the topic." --Child and Family Social Work

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Personality and Social Development, University of Guelph.

Prevention, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, CT.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803973071
• ISBN 13: 9780803973077
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible