1st Edition

Children, Families and Schools Developing Partnerships for Inclusive Education

By Sally Beveridge Copyright 2005
138 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Effective communication between the home and school is crucial for any child's education, but where special needs are concerned, creating good partnerships is essential. This book is concerned with home-school relations from an 'inclusive' perspective. Throughout, it highlights issues that are common across all children and families, those that reflect individual diversity and those that are of... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Developing policy frameworks; Chapter 3 Home and family; Chapter 4 Educational disadvantage and the home–school relationship; Chapter 5 Developing home–school relationships; Chapter 6 Children's participation in the home–school relationship; Chapter 7 Towards partnership and participation;

Biography

Sally Wiliams

'I would recommend this book to colleagues who are trying to improve and make sense of parent partnerships. Instead of blaming parents when the partnership is not going well, Sally Beveridge makes us reflect honestly on our own practice: a painful exercise, but a necessary one.' -Kenny Frederick in the TES Book of the Week, 13 May 2005

'Sally Beveridge makes a persuasive and powerful case for the centrality of parents, along with their children, in education and educational decision-making. Her distinctive contribution in this book is to offer a unified, inclusive ideology applicable for all children and the adults who live with, care for and work with them.' - European Journal of Special Needs Education