Home and School Relations : Teachers and Parents Working Together
ISBN: 9780132373388 | 0132373386
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 3/9/2011
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For in-service and practicing teachers and for parents as well, Home-School Relationsexamines the nature of the contemporary family and its relationship to the school, and provides practical advice for developing strong home-school relationships and solid examples of building good home-school partnerships and fostering parent involvement. This textbook discusses the need for educators to have positive working relationships with the students they teach and describes the techniques they must use to understand the families from which their student... MORE
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Families
Chapter 2 Families and Their Functions: Past and Present
Chapter 3 Family Diversity
Chapter 4 Parents' Perspectives on Parenting
Chapter 5 Teachers and Parenting
Chapter 6 Parent-Teacher Communication: Who’s Talking?
Chapter 7 Family Involvement in Education
Chapter 8 Families and T... MORE
Chapter 9 Family-Involvement Models
Chapter 10 Education Law and Parental Rights
Chapter 11 Family Violence: The Effect on Teachers, Parents, and Children
Chapter 12 Poverty: The Enemy of Children and Family
Chapter 13 Fatherhood, Society and School: What Fathers Contribute and Why it is
Important
Chapter 14 The Implications of Home-School Partnerships for School Violence and Bullying
Chapter 15 Finding a Voice for Children: Advocacy in Action
Glenn Olsen is currently a professor and department chair in the Teaching and Learning Department at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. He has a bachelor’s degree from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Oregon, a M.S. degree in Child Development from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He has taught American History and Urban Studies at Jefferson School and South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has also directed child care centers in rural communities and in technical colleges in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He has over 30 articles on different education issues published and another book co-authored with John Hoover called Teasing and Harassment: The Frames and Scripts Approach for Teachers and Parents. Glenn served on the Crookston, Minnesota School Board for eight years. He has three adult children and his wife Barb teaches kindergarten.
Mary Lou Fuller has been an elementary school teacher, school psychologist, and a university faculty member. At the time she retired from the University of North Dakota, she was a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and held the Rose Isabelle Kelley Fischer Chair of Education. She received three Master’s Degrees from Arizona State University and her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. Her studies dealt with diversity in the classroom and in families, and diversity is central to most of her research and publications. Among her publications are two other college textbooks, Teaching Hispanic Children and Adult Learners on Campus, co-authored with colleagues. Mary Lou now lives on a ranch in the high desert of Arizona and teaches off-campus classes for Northern Arizona University. She enjoys communicating with other educators and welcomes email at mary_fuller@und.edu .
