International Perspectives on Contexts, Communities and Evaluated Innovative Practices: Family-School-Community Partnerships

by Deslandes; Rollande

• ISBN13: 9780415479493
• ISBN10: 0415479495
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Research and practice in the vast field of school-family-community relations have evolved dramatically over the last thirty years. Schools throughout the world face enormous challenges due to demographic changes and societal problems, making partnerships among schools, families and community groups a necessity. Specific issues such as poverty, school dropout, violence and suicide, the wider diversity of students and parents, the higher accountability demanded of school systems, the implementation of school reforms and a multitude of government strategies and policies all contribute to a rapidly changing educational world. But as this book shows, even though research is often being undertaken independently in different countries, strong similarities are apparent across countries and cultures. School-family-community collaboration is no longer a single country issue. The book brings together contributions from culturally and linguistically diverse countries facing these common situations and challenges. It details practices that have proved effective alongside relevant case examples, and covers a wide variety of topics, including: challenges arising from the application of parent-school legislation at national level the work of schools with migrant groups, low-income parents and parents with behaviour problems. evaluation of various family-school-community partnerships programs the way ahead for Family-School-Community Relations With contributions from distinguished researchers from throughout the world (including the United States, Canada, the UK, Europe, China and Australia). It is a perfect companion to International Perspectives on Student Outcomes and Homework, also edited by Rollande Deslandes, and published simultaneously by Routledge.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Four key policy questions about parent engagement recommendations from the evidence	p. 8
Family-school partnership in theory and practice of the Czech schools: conflict between ideal and reality	p. 21
Home-school collaboration in two Chinese societies: Hong Kong and Macao	p. 37
'Class acts': home-school involvement and working-class parents in the UK	p. 50
Creating effective family-school partnerships in highly diverse contexts: building partnership models and constructing parent typologies	p. 64
The challenge of co-education in a disadvantaged context	p. 82
Indigenous family and community involvement in Australian curriculum development	p. 95
Observatory on family-school-community partnership in Spain: a longitudinal programme to promote quality in education and social development	p. 110
Using evaluation to prove and improve the quality of partnership programmes in schools	p. 126
School-community collaborations and measures supporting academic achievement in two underprivileged Montreal neighbourhoods: an evaluation of processes and effects	p. 143
Family-school-community partnerships: What has been done? What have we learned?	p. 162
More than services: community organising and community schools	p. 177
Evaluation of comprehensive prevention-intervention partnership programmes for school children	p. 189
Capturing complexity: evaluation of the Yale Child Study Center School Development Program	p. 204
Conclusion	p. 220
Index	p. 228
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