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EJ541605 PS526216
Title: Challenges to Family Involvement.Author(s): Coleman, Mick; Churchill, Susan
Source: Childhood Education, v73 n3 p144-48 Spr 1997
Publication Date: 1997
ISSN: 0009-4056
Language: English
Document Type: Guides--Non-classroom (055); Journal articles (080)
Journal Announcement: CIJAUG1997
Describes
challenges of school-initiated family involvement, including ambiguous
definitions of family involvement and diversity of backgrounds.
Provides guiding "themes" for involvement philosophies
and interactions. Examines how three types of family professionals
can work with schools to strengthen family involvement: teacher
training by family life educators, community education by family
life advocates, and family involvement research by family researchers.
(EV)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education; Family Characteristics;
*Family Involvement; *Family School Relationship; *Parent Participation;
*Parent School Relationship; *Parent Teacher Cooperation; Socioeconomic
Status
Identifiers: Diversity (Groups); *Parent Teacher Relationship
