Title: Promising practices for family involvement in schooling across the continents /
Authors: Hiatt-Michael, Diana B.
Publisher: Information Age Pub.,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Home and school Cross-cultural studies.; School children Family relationships Cross-cultural studies.; Education Parent participation Cross-cultural studies.
Contents: Global overview of family-school involvement / Diana B. Hiatt-Michael -- The cultural context of parental participation and Scandinavian/Western European issues / Birte Ravn -- Community and parental involvement in Gambia, West Africa / Binta Colley -- South African education : the growing impact of parental choice / Karen Selby -- Family-school-community partnerships in Russia : traditions and innovations / Ida Jeltova and Yuri Gatanov -- Brazilian perspectives on school and family partnerships / Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues Reali and Regina Maria Simões Puccinelli Tancredi -- The place of family and community within schools in Quebec / Rollande Deslandes and Andre Lemieux -- Neighbors across the border : parental involvement in Texas and Mexico / Arminta Lee Jacobson -- Building family-school relationships in Australia and New Zealand : debates, dilemmas, and promising directions / Patricia Thomson -- Parental involvement in East Asian schools / William Jeynes -- The contribution of family involvement and investment on students' literacy performance : a comparative study of the United States and three Asian societies utilizing PISA / Esther Ho Sui-Chu.