Parents and schools : the contemporary challenge

Author(s)

• Macleod, Flora J.

Bibliographic Information

Parents and schools : the contemporary challenge

edited by Flora Macleod

（Contemporary analysis in education series, 25）

Falmer Press, 1989

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The aim of this volume is to identify and examine the central issues underlying the current interest in parental involvement in schooling. The content and organization of this book is based on the view that the contemporary interest in home-school relations rests on two concerns - firstly, the desire to equalize educational opportunities in the face of discriminatory forces such as race, social class and gender, thought to operate in both schools and the broader community and secondly, the desire to increase accountability of schools to parents. This later desire is manifest in legislation on parent governors, in machinery for parental choices both between and within schools and is an aspect of discussion on teacher appraisal. The book will be of interest to teachers, governors, parents, LEA policy-makers and political and sociological educationalists.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Education and equity: does inequity matter - educationally?, Jim Murphy
• race, education and intellectual prejudice, Jim Murphy
• the gender dimensions of home-school relations, Beverly Anderson
• equity in diversity - the problems posed by values and their resolution, John Raven. Part 2 Accountability to parents and the community: toward an independent education for all, Anthony Flew
• parent power, Ted Wragg
• parent governorship in the new order, Mike Golby
• the politics of parental involvement, Ian Morgan
• parents and the left - rethinking the relationship, David Reynolds
• community education and parent involvement - a partnership in need of a theory, Joyce S.Watts
• 14-18 - parental views on TVEI, Richard Pring and Gill Christie. Postscript: themes, issues and assumptions, Flora MacLeod.

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Details

• NCID: BA07573009
• ISBN:
  • 1850004986
  • 1850004994
• LCCN: 89030792
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 233 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : LC225.33.G7
  • DC19 : 370.19/31
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Home and school -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Education -- Great Britain -- Parent participation
  • LCSH : Educational accountability -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Educational equalization -- Great Britain
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00358198