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6 produkter
6 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
3 694 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This timely Handbook presents vital perspectives underpinning historical, current and emerging trends within family and education studies. Editors Sivanes Phillipson, Wendy Goff and Susanne Garvis bring together a diverse collective of authors to holistically depict the unique role of families within education.The Handbook on Families and Education is an important compendium of both theoretical and real-world studies, shedding light on various interdisciplinary perspectives covering sociology, linguistics, economics, and public policy. Both historical and contemporary research models, including integrative models, the Actiotope Model, and the Peripheral Model, are utilized to highlight the truly central role of the family in learning processes, and to ultimately encourage readers to finalize their own educational theories.Scholars and students of sociology, education policy, teaching, and early childhood education will find this Handbook to be of great interest. Educators will additionally benefit from its practical insights.
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PDF, Engelska, 2025831 kr
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This timely Handbook presents vital perspectives underpinning historical, current and emerging trends within family and education studies. Editors Sivanes Phillipson, Wendy Goff and Susanne Garvis bring together a diverse collective of authors to holistically depict the unique role of families within education.
The Handbook on Families and Education is an important compendium of both theoretical and real-world studies, shedding light on various interdisciplinary perspectives covering sociology, linguistics, economics, and public policy. Both historical and contemporary research models, including integrative models, the Actiotope Model, and the Peripheral Model, are utilized to highlight the truly central role of the family in learning processes, and to ultimately encourage readers to finalize their own educational theories.
Scholars and students of sociology, education policy, teaching, and early childhood education will find this Handbook to be of great interest. Educators will additionally benefit from its practical insights.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
754 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Partnerships with Families and Communities: Building Dynamic Relationships is a comprehensive and accessible resource that provides pre-service teachers with the tools required to build effective, sustainable and proactive partnerships in both early childhood and primary educational settings. This text introduces models of home-school-community partnerships in educational contexts and presents a comprehensive partnerships approach for best practice in applying and leading effective relationships with key stakeholders. It explores essential underpinning policies, legislation and research theories that position strong, positive and proactive partnerships as a systemic solution to children's learning development. Key topics covered include diversity in partnership work, reflective practice and tools for evaluating working partnerships. Each chapter includes focused pedagogy, key terms and definitions, scenarios and review questions, which enable readers to deeply engage with new concepts. 'Proactive Partners' boxes explore real-world scenarios and encourage readers to link theory with practice.
E-bok
Engelska, 2023892 kr
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E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2023892 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Partnerships with Families and Communities: Building Dynamic Relationships is a comprehensive and accessible resource that provides pre-service teachers with the tools required to build effective, sustainable and proactive partnerships in both early childhood and primary educational settings. This text introduces models of home-school-community partnerships in educational contexts and presents a comprehensive partnerships approach for best practice in applying and leading effective relationships with key stakeholders. It explores essential underpinning policies, legislation and research theories that position strong, positive and proactive partnerships as a systemic solution to children''s learning development. Key topics covered include diversity in partnership work, reflective practice and tools for evaluating working partnerships. Each chapter includes focused pedagogy, key terms and definitions, scenarios and review questions, which enable readers to deeply engage with new concepts. ''Proactive Partners'' boxes explore real-world scenarios and encourage readers to link theory with practice.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
612 kr
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The Hidden Inequity uncovers a silent public health crisis within Scotland’s education system: the creation of unusually wide 19‑month school cohorts that leave the youngest children at a lifelong disadvantage. Drawing on extensive systematic review evidence, policy analysis, and consultation with international experts, the authors show how this cohort structure amplifies relative age effects, shaping children’s mental health, learning disability diagnoses, academic outcomes, physical wellbeing, and long‑term opportunities.Chapters explore the deeply inequitable impacts of these policies, with girls, children from deprived communities, and minority ethnic groups disproportionately harmed. Well‑intended funding changes have unintentionally widened these gaps, making Scotland’s current system both internationally unique and increasingly unsustainable. The authors argue that this moment presents a rare and urgent opportunity for reform, with legal and financial barriers already resolved and clear evidence pointing the way forward.Offering nine actionable, evidence‑based policy recommendations, the authors chart a practical path to align school entry with legal ages, tighten cohort structures, improve equity, and bring Scottish practice in line with global standards. A compelling call to action for policymakers, educators, public health leaders, and researchers, The Hidden Inequity reframes school entry policy as a decisive determinant of health and life opportunities.