Mis Understanding Families

by Marsh, Monica Miller

• ISBN13: 9780807750377
• ISBN10: 0807750379
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

This practical resource will help educators to identify, address, and meet the needs of the diverse families in today's classrooms. It is the first book to critically examine how families are represented in the media, schools, and other institutions and apply that information to building effective home-school partnerships. Discussion questions are inlcuded in each chapter so that readers can examine their working relationships with the families of their students.

Author Biography

Monica Miller Marsh is an associate professor of education at DeSales University. Tammy Turner-Vorbeck is an adjunct professor of education at Purdue University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Are Schools Doing Enough to Learn About Families?	p. 4
Representations of Families in Formal and Informal Curriculum
Disarticulating Parent Involvement in Latino-Impacted Schools in the Midwest	p. 19
Not the Real Thing: A History of Hollywood's TV Families	p. 37
Messages Protagonists Send Us: Families in Young Adult Literature	p. 53
Literature Conversations for Inquiring Into the Influence of Family Stories on Teacher Identities	p. 79
A Tale of Two Adoptive Families	p. 95
Family-School Collaborations
"I Always Feel They Don't Know Anything About Us": Diverse Families Talk About Their Relations with School	p. 109
Debunking the Myths About the Urban Family: A Constructed Conversation	p. 126
Reaching Native American Families to Increase School Involvement	p. 145
Social Class, Culture, and "Good Parenting": Voices of Low-SES Families	p. 162
The Interwoven Stories of Teachers, Families, and Children in Curriculum Making	p. 179
About the Editors and the Contributors	p. 197
Index	p. 203
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