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School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schoolsreviewed by Joyce Taylor Gibson & Maury Frieman — 2002 Title: School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools Author(s): Joyce L. Epstein
Publisher: Westview Press, Boulder, CO ISBN: 0813387558, Pages: 620, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Dr. Joyce Epstein, an educator and researcher at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Maryland, has been a leader in examining
parent involvement in schools for over twenty-five years. This
prolific author has published a wide body of articles on this
topic, enabling her to share an unmatched knowledge of family,
school and community involvement with a wide audience. Her
revolutionary, research-based idea that the adults most responsible
for children’s learning have overlapping spheres of
influence in helping children reach their educational goals,
has steadily begun to impact the educational community’s
resistance to working collaboratively with those outside their area
of expertise. The author broadens the scope of family involvement
in schools by stressing the reciprocal partnership that she feels
must exist between the school, family, and the community in order
maximize the educational process.
This six hundred and five page book integrates theory, research
(mostly the result of survey research), teaching practice, and
social policy. It is a comprehensive book directed towards,
educators, policy makers, school administrators, and... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Joyce Taylor Gibson
University of Massachusetts-Lowell E-mail Author Joyce Taylor Gibson is an Associate Professor of Education in the Leadership in Schooling Program at the Graduate School of Education, University of Massachusetts Lowell. For the past two years she has also served as the Co-Director of the Center for Family, Work & Community, where she and her colleagues are currently in the third year of a five-year, federally funded program to increase the college attendance of urban youth. Family involvement is one of the key elements of this 4.2 million dollar initiative. Her research interest include: 1) leadership and change in schools and communities,
2) cultural diversity and achievement in urban schools, 3) women’s leadership in K-12 settings.
- Maury Frieman
University of Massachusetts-Lowell E-mail Author Maury Frieman is a school psychologist and doctoral student at University of Masschusetts-Lowell. Maury's primary interest is in the father’s role in helping children in schools, and he has recently written a book chapter on this topic.
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