Home-School Work in Britain Review, Reflection, and Development

First Published in 1996. This book forms part of a series that brings together wide-ranging contributions which: are written from both professional and parental viewpoints; offer an assessment of what has been achieved; explore a number of problematic issues and experiences and illustrate developments that are beginning to take shape. It will appeal to those with a special interest in and commitment to home-school work in all its actual and potential facets. This book, like the series it introduces, is an attempt to capture the flavour of home-school work in Britain in the 1990s. It conveys a mixture of familiar concerns and recent developments, of shared interests and differences of approach that relate to differences of setting and circumstance.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Managing the changing power bases – parents, schools, governors and LEAs, Alwyn Morgan; Chapter 2 Learning begins at home: implications for a learning society, Titus Alexander; Chapter 3 Good mothers are women too: the gender implications of parental involvement in education, Kathy Maclachlam; Chapter 4 ‘It hurts me in my heart when my child brings home a book’ – reading at home for bilingual families, Diana Stoker; Chapter 5 Empowering pupils through home–school links, Conrad Chapman; Chapter 6 Home–school liaison: the mainstreaming of good ideas and effective practice, John Bastiani; Chapter 7 The PSP experience in Liverpool: towards a city-wide service; Chapter 8 The contribution of parents to children’s achievement in school: policy and practice in the London Borough of Newham, Sheila Wolfendale; Chapter 9 Home–school projects: influencing long-term change, Anne Houston; Chapter 10 Home works: shared maths and shared writing, Ruth Merttens, Alan Newland; Chapter 11 Making school more visible to parents: an evaluation of the Harbinger Video Project, Roger Hancock, Anne O’Connor, Helen Jenner, Gavin Østmo, Geoff Sheath; Chapter 12 Setting up a parents’ advice centre: partnership or PR?, Sarah Gale; Chapter 13 Parents and secondary schools: a different approach?, Emma Beresford, Angus Hardie; Chapter 14 Home to school is a long way: facing up to the issues of developing home–school alliances in rural areas, Tanny Stobart;

Bastiani, John; Wolfendale, Sheila