International perspectives on contexts, communities, and evaluated innovative practices
Subtitle: family-school-community partnerships
By: [edited by] Rollande Deslandes.
Contributors: Deslandes, Rollande.
Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415479493; 9780203875667
Subjects: Home and school -- Cross-cultural studies; Community and school -- Cross-cultural studies; School improvement programs -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rollande Deslandes; title: Key policy questions about parent engagement recommendations from the evidence / Kenneth Leithwood; title: Family/school partnership in theory and practice of the Czech schools: conflict between ideal and reality / Milada Rabusicova; title: Home school collaboration in two Chinese societies: Hong Kong and Macao / Esther Sui Chu Ho; title: "Class acts": home/school involvement and working-class parents in the UK / Diane Reay; title: Creating effective family/schoolpartnerships in highly diverse contexts: building partnership models and constructing parent typologies / Frederik Smit and Geert Driessen; title: The challenge of co/education in a disadvantaged context / Willy Lahaye, Jean-Pierre Pourtois, and Huguette Desmet; title: Indigenous family and community involvement in Australian curriculum development / Neil Hooley and Maureen Ryan; title: 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.]; title: Using evaluation to prove and improve the quality of partnership programs in schools / Steven B. Sheldon; title: School/community collaborations and measures supporting academic achievement in two underprivileged Montreal neighbourhoods: an evaluation of processes and effects / Angèle Bilodeau ... [et al.]; title: Family/school/community partnerships: what has been done? what have we learned? / Rollande Deslandes; title: More than services: community organising and community schools / Mark R. Warren and Soo Hong; title: Evaluation of comprehensive prevention/intervention partnership programs for school children / Mary E. Walsh and Kristin M. Wieneke; title: Capturing complexity: evaluation of the Yale child study center school development program / Christine L. Emmons and James P. Comer; title: Conclusion / Rollande Deslandes.