1st Edition

Partnership In Maths: Parents And Schools The Impact Project

Edited By Ruth Merttens, Jeff Vass Copyright 1993
262 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Written by authors well known in their fields, Merttens and Vass bring together diverse and different views on IMPACT of wide reading appeal. In the current economy, should teachers be regarded as producers and parents as consumers? There is no issue in education more urgent than that concerning the relationships between parents, teachers and children. The IMPACT project involves individuals... Read more
Part 1 Starting IMPACT: IMPACT - pride, prejudice and pedagogy - one director's personal story, R. Merttens. Part 2 Doing IMPACT: IMPACT and the early years classroom, C. Tye; IMPACT - a parent's personal perspective, S. Harrison; IMPACT - does it really make a different? A teacher's personal view, L. Calvert. Part 3 Supporting IMPACT: IMPACT in the urban authority, D. Bristow; IMPACT at the core of the curriculum - the work of a primary maths adviser in the new era, D. Owen. Part 4 Research in the area: parents in the new era - myth or reality?, M. Hughes et al; IMPACT and cultural diversity, D. Curle; IMPACT in service training - a view from the centre of the webb, R. Merttens. Part 5 Reflections: special needs, parents and the Education Reform Act, G. Thomas; marginal dialogues, social positions and inequity in rhetorical resources, J. Vass; including parents - the dynamics of resistance, D. Hamilton and D. Dyne.

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Ruth Merttens, Jeff Vass