Promising practices for family involvement in schooling across the continents
By: edited by Diana B. Hiatt-Michael.
Contributors: Hiatt-Michael, Diana B.
Series: Family, school, community, partnership series
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Home and school -- Cross-cultural studies.; School children -- Family relationships -- Cross-cultural studies.; Education -- Parent participation -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of 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.