International perspectives on contexts, communities and evaluated innovative practices family-school-community partnerships /

• Other Authors: Deslandes, Rollande.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Contexts of learning.
• Subjects: Home and school > Cross-cultural studies.; Community and school > Cross-cultural studies.; School improvement programs > Cross-cultural studies.; Community and school.; Home and school.; School improvement programs.; EDUCATION > General. > Teaching Methods & Materials; Electronic books.
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Detailing practices that have proved effective alongside relevant case examples, this book analyses contributions from diverse countries facing common challenges, showing the way ahead for Family-School-Community Relations.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Rollande Deslandes
• Key policy questions about parent engagement recommendations from the evidence / Kenneth Leithwood
• Family-school partnership in theory and practice of the Czech schools : conflict between ideal and reality / Milada Rabusicova
• Home-school collaboration in two Chinese societies : Hong Kong and Macao / Esther Sui Chu Ho
• 'Class acts' : home-school involvement and working-class parents in the UK / Diane Reay
• Creating effective family-school partnerships in highly diverse contexts : building partnership models and constructing parent typologies / Frederik Smit and Geert Driessen
• The challenge of co-education in a disadvantaged context / Willy Lahaye, Jean-Pierre Pourtois, and Huguette Desmet
• Indigenous family and community involvement in Australian curriculum development / Neil Hooley and Maureen Ryan
• Observatory on family-school-community partnership in Spain : a longitudinal programme to promote quality in education and social development / Raquel-Amaya Martinez-Gonzalez ... [et al.]
• Using evaluation to prove and improve the quality of partnership programmes in schools / Steven B. Sheldon
• School-community collaborations and measures supporting academic achievement in two underprivileged Montreal neighbourhoods : an evaluation of processes and effects / Angèle Bilodeau ... [et al.]
• Family-school-community partnerships : what has been done? what have we learned? / Rollande Deslandes
• More than services : community organising and community schools / Mark R. Warren and Soo Hong
• Evaluation of comprehensive prevention-intervention partnership programs for school children / Mary E. Walsh and Kristin M. Wieneke
• Capturing complexity : evaluation of the Yale Child Study Center School Development Program / Christine L. Emmons and James P. Comer
• Conclusion / Rollande Deslandes.