Promising Practices for Family Involvement in Schooling Across the Continents
Emerald
This book can be opened with
Note on our eBooks and Audiobooks: you can read our eBooks (ePUB or PDF) and listen to audiobooks on the free Emerald Books app on iOS, Android, and desktop. Or read and listen on Emerald's online reader (ePUB eBooks and audiobooks only). To purchase a digital book you will need to create an account if you don’t already have one. After purchasing you will receive instructions on how to get started.
- Description
- Contents
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.
Chapter 1. Global Overview of Family-School Involvement; Diana B. Hiatt-Michael.
- Chapter 2. The Cultural Context of Parental Participation and Scandinavian/Western European Issues; Birte Ravn.
- Chapter 3. Community and Parental Involvement in Gambia, West Africa; Binta M. Colley.
- Chapter 4. South African Education: The Growing Impact of Parental Choice; Karen Selby
- Chapter 5. Family-School-Community Partnerships in Russia: Traditions and Innovations; Ida Jeltova and Yuri Gatanov.
- Chapter 6. Brazilian Perspectives on Family-School Involvement; Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues Reali and Regina Maria Simoes Puccinelli Tancredi.
- Chapter 7. The Place of Family and Community within Schools in Quebec; Rollande Deslandes and Andre Lemieux.
- Chapter 8. Neighbors Across the Border: Parental Involvement in Texas and Mexico; Arminta Lee Jacobson.
- Chapter 9. Building Family-School Relationships in Australia and New Zealand: Debates, Dilemmas, and Promising Directions; Patricia Thomson.
- Chapter 10. Parental Involvement in East Asian Schools; William Jeynes.
- Chapter 11. The Contribution of Family Involvement and Investment on Students' Literacy Performance: A Comparative Study of the US and Three Asian Societies Utilizing PISA; Esther Sui Chu Ho.