Family-School Connection - Theory, Research, and Practice

What is the nature of the relationships between family variables and children's successes in school? An examination of this question is the basis of this volume. Building on a model for evaluating the relationships between families, schools and children, the contributors analyze: how school achievement is influenced by parent-child interactions; how early adolescents are affected by the overlapping `spheres of influence' of school, family, community and peer group; and how family environment influences educational attainment. Other issues discussed include: education for children with learning difficulties; school truancy; and the effects of parental discord and divorce on children's learning. In conclusion, the book offers examples of prevention and intervention.

List of contents

Series Editor¿s Introduction - Thomas P Gullotta
It Is in Our Best Interest
PART ONE: PROCESSES
The Family-School Relationships Model - Bruce A Ryan and Gerald R Adams
Inquiring into Children¿s Social Worlds - Ellen S Amatea and Peter A D Sherrard
A Choice of Lenses
Parent-Child Interactions and School Achievement - Diane Scott-Jones
National Patterns of School and Family Connections in the Middle Grades - Joyce L Epstein and Seyong Lee
The Impact of Family Environment on Educational Attainment - Jay D Teachman, Randal D Day and Karen Price Carver
Do Families Make a Difference?
PART TWO: ISSUES
High Achievement, Underachievement and Learning Disabilities - Robert-Jay Green
A Family Systems Model
Children¿s School Performance - Rex Forehand, Lisa Armistead and Karla Klein
The Roles of Interparental Conflict and Divorce
Truancy, Family Processes, and Interventions - Jane Corville-Smith
The Family Resource Center - Robert W Plant and Patricia A King
A Community-Based System of Family Support Services
Intergenerational Influences on Child Outcomes - Annette U Rickel and Evvie Becker-Lausen
Implications for Prevention and Intervention

About the author

Personality and Social Development, University of Guelph.Prevention, Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, CT.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce A. Ryan, Bruce A. Adams Ryan
• Assisted by: Gerald R. Adams (Editor), Thomas P Ed Gullotta (Editor), Thomas P. Gullotta (Editor), Thomas P. Ed Gullotta (Editor), Thomas P. Ed. Gullotta (Editor), Robert L Hampton (Editor), Robert L. Hampton (Editor), Bruce A Ryan (Editor), Bruce A. Ryan (Editor), Roger P. Weissberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.1995
• EAN: 9780803973077
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7307-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Issues in Children's & Familie; Issues in Children's and Families' Lives; Issues in Children's and Famil; Issues in Children′s and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories