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

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara

ISBN 10: 037550527X / ISBN 13: 9780375505270

Editore: Random House, 2003

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Book is in acceptable condition. May have shelf wear, edge wear, and spine wear, but a very readable copy. May not come with supplemental materials if applicable. Does not include original dustcover jacket. Possibly Ex Library Copy.

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• Titolo: The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
• Editore: Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 037550527X
• ISBN 13: 9780375505270
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: acceptable

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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. 25,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?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.