Originally published in 1983, this book offers a perspective on the secondary school years from the standpoint at home. In the early 1980s as now, there was no shortage of advice to parents on how they should bring up their children, and what their relationship should be with the schools their children attended. More rarely heard was the parent’s voice of experience on the stages of family life and how the children’s school life is seen from the family point of view. The purpose of this book was to urge reconsideration of taken-for-granted assumptions about the appropriate relationship between home and secondary school. It can be read today in its historical context.
Acknowledgements. Part I: Introduction and Background 1. A New Enquiry into Home/School Relations 2. Themes in the Study of Home/School Relations Part II: The New Research 3. Before the Secondary School Years 4. Parents and Secondary Teachers in Contact 5. Parents and Teenagers 6. What the School Asks of Parents 7. Home, School and the Welfare Agencies Part III: Summary and Reflections 8. Family and Secondary School – The Relationship Re-assessed. Appendix: Methods of the Research Study. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Daphne Johnson and Elizabeth Ransom
