Building Culturally Responsive Family-School Relationships
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Beschreibung
KEY BENEFIT: This unique text presents a collaborative approach for working with all childrens’ families to promote learning and resolve problems throughout the early childhood and elementary school years. The underlying premise is that teachers who embrace and adapt to shifting realities can work toward true partnerships between culturally diverse communities and the schools that serve them.
KEY TOPICS: Beginning with a complete look at the shifting demographic context of schooling in the United States, Amatea’s text examines how families, schools, and communities interact to influence children’s school success. Organized in four sections, the overarching themes of the text address: 1.) Changing the Family-School Roles and Relationships, 2.) From Separation to Collaboration: Changing Paradigms of Family-School Relations, 3.) Building Family-School Relationships to Maximize Student Learning, and 4.) Building Relationships Through Joint Decision-making and Problem-Solving. The text is research-based and practical, balances the theory and application by linking concepts to practice. Culturally responsive instructional and non-instructional practices for building relationships with families characterized by trust, cooperation, and motivation are given, demystifying the process for education professionals. Amatea’s collaborative paradigm, first-person accounts, case studies, and self-reflection exercises set it apart from the competition.
MARKET: This is an essential resource for all school-based practitioners, including school administrators, school counselors, and special education consultants, learning about or working toward successful collaboration with families.
Culturally Responsive Family-School Relationships, Second Edition, is a unique text with a fresh perspective. It presents a successful collaborative approach for working with all students’ families to promote learning and resolve problems throughout the early childhood and elementary school years. The underlying premise is that teachers who embrace and adapt to shifting realities can work toward true partnerships between culturally diverse communities and the schools that serve them. Taking into account economic and cultural diversity as well as exceptionality, the text thoroughly describes culturally-responsive instructional and non-instructional practices that educators can use to build family-school relationships characterized by trust, cooperation and motivation to help all children succeed in school. Grounded in research, this book balances theory and application by discussing conceptual issues and linking them to methods educators can use--making it an essential resource for all school-based practitioners, including school administrators, school counselors, and special education consultants.
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Ellen Amatea