The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other - Brossura

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0345475801 ISBN 13: 9780345475800

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 2004

Riassunto

Offers practical guidelines on how to establish an effective dialogue between parents and teachers, examining the dynamics of such conversations, the nature of the learning process, and the diverse principles and practices of improving family-school relationships. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione

“Here is a book that will help us all understand what happens when children leave home in order to learn at school: One world meets another, and as a consequence the young witness their elders in an instructive encounter of great significance—all of which is told forthrightly and thoughtfully in an enormously important volume (one soon to be a classic in the literature of education) that will be of continuing value to its readers.” —Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis and Lives of Moral Leadership

“Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has demonstrated again her instinct for the telling specificity that offers not only insight into matters of broad social concern but also reason for hope. In precise and luminous prose she connects our deepest passions and painful memories to the conversations that will determine our children’s futures.” —Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life

L'autore

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, is a professor of education at Harvard University, where, since 1972, she has studied the culture of schools, families, and communities. She is the author of eight books, including The Good High School, Respect, I’ve Known Rivers, and Balm in Gilead, which won the 1988 Christopher Award for “literary merit and humanitarian achievement.” In 1984, she was the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Prize Fellowship. In 1993, she was awarded Harvard’s George Ledlie Prize for research that makes the “most valuable contribution to science” and is to “the benefit of mankind.” She is the first African-American woman in Harvard’s history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.
From the Hardcover edition.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0345475801
• ISBN 13: 9780345475800
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 288