Routledge Library Editions: Home and School
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Children and Parents Enjoying Reading: Parents and the Literacy Hour: A Teacher's Guide
1st Edition
By Peter Branston, Mark Provis
August 05, 2025
With the introduction of the Literacy Hour in 1998, the case for harnessing parental involvement in promoting children’s literacy was stronger than ever. Originally published in 1999, this book offered a detailed and practical approach, based on three key concepts: keeping the child in the driving ...
Home–School Work in Multicultural Settings
1st Edition
Edited
By John Bastiani
August 05, 2025
Originally published in 1997, the purpose of this collection was to raise the profile of the valuable work that was being done with minority ethnic parents and families in many different settings and circumstances. Contributors discuss issues and concerns and illustrate the range, scope and variety...
Listening to Parents: An Approach to the Improvement of Home/School Relations
1st Edition
By Janet Atkin, John Bastiani
August 05, 2025
In the late 1980s positive interaction between home and school in education was receiving attention from politicians, parents and teachers. It was thought that by listening to parents, teachers might gain insight into the ways in which they could work more effectively with children and their ...
Moral Education: A Sociological Study of the Influence of Society, Home and School
1st Edition
By William Kay
August 05, 2025
In the early 1970s few subjects in schools had grown faster than moral education, and more and more teachers were seeking guidance in a changing and developing field where a training in the ‘traditional’ subjects could not always provide sufficient help. Originally published in 1975, Dr Kay ...
Parent Power: A Dictionary Guide to your Child's Education and Schooling
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Bagnall
August 05, 2025
Originally published in 1974, Parent Power was a comprehensive handbook for parents on education and schooling at the time. Clearly and concisely, it outlined the rights of parents within the education system, and set out how they might be most effectively asserted to achieve results. Parent Power ...
Parents Should Be Heard
1st Edition
By Daphne Nicholson Bennett
August 05, 2025
For any parent or parent-to-be this book, originally published in 1972, was intended to open new doors, answering questions about themselves and their children, and be illuminating to many others professionally concerned with parents. Many real-life examples from the author’s work demonstrate how ...
Parents and Teachers: Partners or Rivals?
1st Edition
By Lawrence Green
August 05, 2025
Originally published in 1968, this book was for every parent who had ever wondered ‘What goes on in my child’s school – whom do I ask, what do I ask, and dare I ask?’; and for every teacher who had ever thought, ‘How can I get closer to parents and enlist their aid in what I am trying to teach?’ At...
Parents as Educators
1st Edition
By Keith J. Topping
August 05, 2025
Modern practice in the 1980s was to involve parents increasingly in the education of their children, and was supported by legislation. Particularly when children had special needs, parents required structured training and support to ensure they affectively sustained their vital role as educators at...
Routledge Library Editions: Home and School: 11 Volume Set
1st Edition
By Various
August 05, 2025
This 11-volume set, first published between 1968 and 2000, examines the effect of the relationship between home and school on children’s education. Covering parent–teacher communication, as well as that between parents and their children, it shows how parental participation, in school and learning ...
Schooling, Welfare and Parental Responsibility
1st Edition
By Michael G. Wyness
August 05, 2025
In the 1990s, issues of child protection, child abuse and delinquency had generated public and academic concerns over the ability of adults to underwrite the physical, moral and social welfare of children. At the same time, recent educational reform had provoked debate around the shifting balance ...
The Contribution of Parents to School Effectiveness
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheila Wolfendale, John Bastiani
August 05, 2025
School and educational achievement is dependent on many complex factors and is usually seen as the key outcome measure by which school effectiveness can be judged. Originally published in 2000, this book aimed to establish whether or not educational achievement can in part be ascribed to the ...
Working with Parents: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Therapists
1st Edition
By Roy McConkey
August 05, 2025
In the 1980s working with parents in the education and care of their children was more often preached than practised by professionals. However, recent government committees and legislation both in the UK and USA at the time had repeatedly stressed the importance of parental participation. This ...