Essential Conversation What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other

Name: Essential Conversation What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
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ISBN: 9780345475800

ISBN-10: 0345475801

ISBN-13: 9780345475800

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Authors: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

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With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation—the dialogue between the most vital people in a child’s life. “The essential conversation” is the crucial exchange that occurs between parents and teachers—a dialogue that takes place more than one hundred million times a year across our country and is both mirror of and metaphor for the larger cultural forces that define family-school relationships and shape the development of our children.…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.03" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Inheritances



Ghosts in the Classroom



Natural Enemies



Truths the Hand Can Touch



Inequalities and Entitlements



Crossing the Line of Objectivity



Living Both Sides


Conclusion: Borderlands and Crossroads


Contributions to the Conversation