Creating family-school partnerships: from 'talking to' towards 'learning with'

"Offering a new perspective on the family-school partnership, Sandra provides support to school leaders to move away from outdated but ingrained approaches to partnership using The Pathways to Partnership Model that she developed as a result of her doctoral research. Globally, schools are becom...

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1. Verfasser: Webster, Sandra ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY Routledge 2024
Schriftenreihe:Evolving families
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Zusammenfassung:"Offering a new perspective on the family-school partnership, Sandra provides support to school leaders to move away from outdated but ingrained approaches to partnership using The Pathways to Partnership Model that she developed as a result of her doctoral research. Globally, schools are becoming less than simply an education centre and more of a hub that integrates health and social services, hence changing the basic principles of schooling and education. With this change, the way schools regard family involvement has also shifted, with family involvement being viewed as a strategically critical role. This shift has been influenced not just by the recent pandemic, but also by the global trend towards decentralisation and democratisation of the decision-making power in schools, in which parent empowerment is implicit. However, many schools have not followed a modern engagement model in the way they approach partnership with the family, and still espouse approaches that are school centric and outdated in their orientation. The Pathways to Partnership is a new model of family-school partnership moving leaders from 'talking to', towards 'learning with' parents. Using case studies and the voices of parents and teachers to bring the content to life, Sandra provides strategies for school leaders and teachers to use to establish contemporary partnerships with families, ones that reflects current thinking that leads schools into authentic collaboration with their most important partners"--
Beschreibung:x, 154 Seiten
ISBN:9781032404127