Family-School Relationships: A View from the Classroom

Educational Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 245-259

  Lareau, Annette ^a  

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EID: 84973224870     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904889003003004     Document Type: Article

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2. Joyce L. Epstein, “Toward a Theory of Family-School Coimections: Teacher Practices and Parent Involvement,” in Social Interventions: Potential and Constraints ed. K. Hurrelman, F. Kaufmann, and P. Losel (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1987), pp. 121-136; David Seeley, “Home-School Partnership,” Phi Delta Kappan 65 (February 1984): 383-393; Annie Henderson, ed. Parent Participation- Student Achievement: The Evidence Grows (Columbia, Md.: National Committee for Citizens in Education, 1981); Don Davies, ed. Schools Where Parents Make a Difference (Boston: Institute for Responsive Education, 1976); Dorothy Rich, Schools and Families: Issues arui Actions (Washington, D.C.: National Education Association, 1987); and Hope Jensen Leichter, “Families and Communities as Educators: Some Concepts of Relationships,” in Families and Communities as Educators, ed. H.J. Leitcher (New York: Teachers College Press, 1979), pp. 3-94.
3. The question was: “How would you characterize the level of parent involvement in your school?”
4. The questions were: “What, from your point of view as a teacher, constitutes an effective parent in schooling?” “What factors prevent more parents from acting as effective parents in schooling?” and “What factors support parents acting effectively in schooling?” In addition, in the second set of interviews we collected information about the number of contacts teachers made with parents through telephone calls and visits to the school.
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12. On a related point, Hoover-Dempsey and colleagues found that parent involvement increased teachers sense of efficacy in their work. Hoover-Dempsey et al., “Parent Involvement.”
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22. Seeley, “Home-School Partnership.”