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Building School and Community Partnerships Through Parent Involvementreviewed by Robert L. Crowson - 2001 Title: Building School and Community Partnerships Through Parent Involvement Author(s): Kay Wright Springate and Dolores A. Stegelin Publisher: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs ISBN: 013520545X, Pages: 339, Year: 1999 Search for book at Amazon.com At the conclusion of a long career in rural education, David J.
Malcolm wrote a series of full-of-advice letters to his daughter.
His daughter was just entering the teaching profession at that time
(early in the twentieth century). Later, in 1927, Malcolm’s
collected letters to his daughter were published. Many of the
letters addressed interactions with parents and the community.
These ranged from just what to do to get folks together around
schoolhouse issues, to how to advise parents on matters of their
children’s education (including meals, playtime, homework,
and even table manners), to just what are the teacher’s
rights and responsibilities vis-à-vis parents and the
community.
It was not David Malcolm’s message, however, that captured
the educational profession through much of the remainder of the
twentieth century. Much more attention, over time, has been given
to the warnings of Willard Waller (1932)—who instead urged
that a clear distinction must be established between school and
not-school; and there must be a decided distancing of the
professional educator from... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Robert Crowson
Peabody College, Vanderbilt University E-mail Author Robert L. Crowson is a Professor of School Administration at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Selected publications include: The Politics of Education and the New Institutionalism: Reinventing the American School (The 1995 Yearbook of the Politics of Education Association) (Falmer Press) and Managing Uncertainty: Administrative Theory and Practice in Education.
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