160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.

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Daphne Johnson and Elizabeth Ransom