What is the nature of the relationships between family variables and children's successes in school? An examination of this question is the basis of this volume. Building on a model for evaluating the relationships between families, schools and children, the contributors analyze: how school achievement is influenced by parent-child interactions; how early adolescents are affected by the overlapping `spheres of influence' of school, family, community and peer group; and how family environment influences educational attainment. Other issues discussed include: education for children with learning difficulties; school truancy; and the effects of parental discord and divorce on children's learning. In conclusion, the book offers examples of prev
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Personality and Social Development, University of Guelph.
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This review is from: The Family-School Connection: Theory, Research, and Practice (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives) (Paperback)
The quintet of editors in this book sculpt exactly what we need if we use the title as a guide: lots of excellent essays on the issues and topics encouraging, discouraging, and expanding home-school communication.
Please get this book if you can, but do not let it stand as your only resource in this topic. Please check out books by Kevin Swick, Nancy Chavkin, Diane Hiatt-Michaels, James Comer, Joyce Epstein, the team of Anne Bauer/Thomas Shea, and Ellen Galinsky.
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