(Mis)understanding Families Learning from Real Families in Our Schools

Name: (Mis)understanding Families Learning from Real Families in Our Schools
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ISBN: 9780807750377

ISBN-10: 0807750379

ISBN-13: 9780807750377

Edition: 2010

Authors: Monica Miller Marsh, Tammy Turner-Vorbeck, Stacey Lee

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Description:

This practical resource will help educators to identify, address, and meet the needs of the diverse families in today's classrooms. It is the first book to critically examine how families are represented in the media, schools, and other institutions and apply that information to building effective home-school partnerships. Discussion questions are inlcuded in each chapter so that readers can examine their working relationships with the families of their students.

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 12/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Tammy Turner-Vorbeck, Visiting Professor of Teacher Education, Wabash College. Monica Miller Marsh, Associate Professor of Education, DeSales University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Are Schools Doing Enough to Learn About Families?




Representations of Families in Formal and Informal Curriculum



Disarticulating Parent Involvement in Latino-Impacted Schools in the Midwest




Not the Real Thing: A History of Hollywood's TV Families




Messages Protagonists Send Us: Families in Young Adult Literature




Literature Conversations for Inquiring Into the Influence of Family Stories on Teacher Identities




A Tale of Two Adoptive Families




Family-School Collaborations



"I Always Feel They Don't Know Anything About Us": Diverse Families Talk About Their Relations with School




Debunking the Myths About the Urban Family: A Constructed Conversation




Reaching Native American Families to Increase School Involvement




Social Class, Culture, and "Good Parenting": Voices of Low-SES Families




The Interwoven Stories of Teachers, Families, and Children in Curriculum Making



About the Editors and the Contributors


Index