Rethinking Family-school Relations: A Critique of Parental involvement in Schooling (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)
This carefully researched, provocative study will benefit all education professionals and people concerned with equity in public schooling.—Journal of Childhood Education InternationalOutstanding!....Unique to its field....de Carvalho has written the first book that demonstrates a critical approach and thoroughly challenges all of the naive assumptions that guide conventional thinking on families and their relationships with schools. This book should force all of us to rethink our knee-jerk support for parental involvement in schools.—David GabbardEastern Carolina University