The 'Thomas version' of the interactionist model is adopted in the present study to
examine relations between family learning environments, children's attitudes to
school, and their academic achievement in school. Children's learning ...
Author: Kevin Marjoribanks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351847261
Category: Education
Page: 270
View: 467
First published in 1979, this study is one of the first works of educational research to include detailed assessments of family environments in an analysis of performance of children at their schools. Much of the research is based on data collected from families in Australia, Canada and England and the findings have been integrated with results from other family environments research. The study also explores social and psychological conceptual positions that will have relevance for further educational investigations. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the relationship between family environments and education, as well as the sociology of education.
CE credit is available to purchasers of this book at www.mensanapublications.com.
Author: Emily S. Fisher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136663390
Category: Psychology
Page: 274
View: 865
The importance of creating safe spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students in the school environment cannot be overstated. It is one of the most prominent issues facing school professionals today, and its success has lasting, positive effects on the entire student body. Drawing on the expertise of researchers and practitioners, Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments provides a comprehensive examination of the topics most relevant for school professionals. The first section lays out the theoretical foundation and background school professionals need to understand the social and political trends that impact LGBTQ individuals, the development of sexual orientation and gender identity, risk and resilience factors, and the intersection of LGBTQ identity with other aspects of diversity. The second section explores topics critical for the development of safe, supportive school environments, including understanding legal and ethical mandates, training school personnel, addressing bullying and harassment, and developing inclusive classrooms. Special topics related to counseling LGBTQ students, supporting families of LGBTQ students, becoming an ally and advocate in the schools, and connecting with community resources are also covered. CE credit is available to purchasers of this book at www.mensanapublications.com.
children and their first school experiences: Technical report series (ETS PR 72-
27). ... Hess, R. D. Social class and ethnic influences on socialization. In P. H. ...
Marjoribanks, K. Families and their learning environments: An empirical analysis.
Author: Luis Laosa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781468441727
Category: Social Science
Page: 396
View: 572
The chapters in this volume reflect the work and thoughts of a group of researchers interested in studying families as learning environments for children. As we proceed in our quest to identify and understand with some specificity the familial factors associated with the intellectual and social development of children, the time is ripe for the reintroduction of families as units of study in psychological and educational research. With the increasing focus on the changing organization of the modern family, it is of more than academic interest to identify those variables that play a significant role in the child's development. Such knowledge certainly should help in the planning and design of appropriate and credible applications. These chapters, representing a broad spectrum of research, derive from papers presented and discussed at a working conference on families as learning environments sponsored by Educational Testing Service in Prince ton, New Jersey. Following the conference, the papers were revised and edited for inclusion in this volume. We are indebted to a number of people whose contributions helped make the conference a success: Samuel J. Messick and Winton H. Manning for their support; Jan Flaugher, Jessie Cryer, Linda Kozelski, and Betty Clausen for assistance with local arrangements; and William Nemceff, Kathleen Lingle, and Kalina Gonska for help with the audio-recording of the proceedings. LUIS M. LAOSA IRVING E. SIGEL vii Contents Introduction ..................................... Xl Luis M. Laosa Chapter 1. Families as Facilitators of Children's Intellectual Development at 3 Years of Age: A Causal Analysis ........................................ .
To get a sense of how people were using the learning environment to support their sensemaking practices, Zimmerman and colleagues mapped what families
said and did during their visits. Within each map, all three planes of the everyday
...
Author: Susan Land
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136702594
Category: Education
Page: 350
View: 345
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments provides students, faculty, and instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the major pedagogical and psychological theories and their implications for the design of new learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations. Leading experts describe the most important contemporary theories that form the foundation of the conception and design of student-centered learning environments and new applications of educational technologies. This book is well suited as a textbook for courses in instructional design, educational psychology, learning theory, curriculum theory and design, and related areas. The rise of constructivism and its associated theories represented a paradigm shift for educators and instructional designers to a view of learning as necessarily more social, conversational, and constructive than traditional transmissive views of learning. This bestselling book was the first to provide a manageable overview of the altered field, and the second edition has been fully updated to include expert introductions to Metacognition, Argumentation, and other key contemporary theories.
Intervention goals, objectives, and techniques for African American children must
reflect their needs and their family's interests, priorities, and values. Activities and
techniques that are culturally appropriate and compatible with their learning ...
Author: Festus E. Obiakor
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 9781483360690
Category: Education
Page: 256
View: 671
In this groundbreaking book, more than 25 leading scholars and practitioners provide concrete solutions for maximizing African American students' achievement.
In basing their practice in child development, however, well-prepared early
childhood professional candidates go beyond narrow ... In respectful environments, candidates model and affirm anti-bias perspectives on
development and learning.
Author: Donna Couchenour
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780495812449
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 416
View: 628
FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITIES: TOGETHER FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, 4TH EDITION, emphasizes the role of families and communities in children’s education, and is geared to meeting national standards in teacher preparation programs. Content reflects current research and best practices in education. The first section, which presents a strong theoretical and research foundation, provides an understanding of family diversity and contemporary issues facing families with young children. This section also addresses the understanding of family systems, family stress, and the responsibilities of parenthood. The application section emphasizes skills and dispositions that pre-service and in-service teachers are expected to develop in relation to building partnerships. These skills include effective interpersonal communication, forming a family-based philosophy of education, parent and family life education topics and strategies, and community involvement. New content includes more historical information on the family, a feature highlighting specific ways to incorporate the family, and expanded information on family strengths and community development. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
An introduction to classroom management, emphasizing teachers as problem solvers, approaching the classroom as a dynamic environment made up of human interactions, and placing the classroom within its broader contexts of school, family and ...
Author: Robert H. Zabel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Division
ISBN: UVA:X004143398
Category: Education
Page: 395
View: 500
An introduction to classroom management, emphasizing teachers as problem solvers, approaching the classroom as a dynamic environment made up of human interactions, and placing the classroom within its broader contexts of school, family and community. Ancillary package available upon adoption.
The purpose of this text is to take curriculum development to another level: to fill the gap between theory and practice.
Author: Karyn Wellhousen
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1401832148
Category: Education
Page: 238
View: 516
Curriculum needs to be based on the strengths and needs of children. This information is gathered through careful observation and documentation and is one of the cornerstones of curriculum development. The purpose of this text is to take curriculum development to another level: to fill the gap between theory and practice. This text will help students to look at curriculum from the perspective of the child and to understand how that perspective is linked to learning and theory. This book is a documentation of individuals and groups of children learning over time. Each curriculum discussion starts with the real experiences that children have had. From these experiences, pertinent theory is woven in, explained and expanded.
Family as their greatest joy was described by eighty-three percent. These
numbers would seem to be bolstered by our marriage rate, which in 1994 was
the highest in Canada. That leap is being given more serious thought than ever
before.
Author: Katy Campbell
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1591401240
Category: Education
Page: 547
View: 586
E-ffective Writing for E-Learning Environments integrates research and practice in user-centered design and learning design for instructors in post-secondary institutions and learning organizations who are developing e-learning resources. The book is intended as a development guide for experts in areas other than instructional or educational technology (in other words, experts in cognate areas such as Biology or English or Nursing) rather than as a learning design textbook. The organization of the book reflects the development process for a resource, course, or program – from planning and development through formative evaluation, and identifies trends and issues that faculty or developers might encounter along the way. The account of the process of one faculty member's course development journey illustrates the suggested design guidelines. The accompanying practice guide provides additional information, examples, learning activities, and tools to supplement the text.
Although we have focused on excessive parental control, other studies have
documented the negative consequences of ... Clearly, these results point to the
importance of designing educational and family environments for early
adolescents ...
Author: Richard M. Lerner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317842743
Category: Psychology
Page: 392
View: 160
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A happy combination of lucid writing and careful analysis or worldwide research.
Author: Thomas Kellaghan
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: UOM:39015028932674
Category: Education
Page: 187
View: 250
A happy combination of lucid writing and careful analysis or worldwide research. For both educators and policy-makers, it will illuminate the educational roles of families and the potential of families and schools to work together. ?Harold Howe II, senior lecturer in education at Harvard University and former U.S. Commissioner of Education
Author: Suzanne K. SteinmetzPublish On: 2013-06-29
FAMILY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS For all children there are inherent risks
and opportunities in their family's physical and social environment (Garbarino,
1982). Opportunities exist when the family environment provides for adaptive,
growth ...
On the contrary, most of the time educational departments were confronted with
exhibitions overwhelming the visitor ... of how to establish museums as learning environments for families and children by involving all museum departments in ...
Author: Barry Lord
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759109710
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 301
View: 918
This Manual is a practical guide to creating successful learning experiences in museums and related institutions such as public galleries, exhibition centers, science centers, zoos, botanical gardens, aquaria, and planetaria. Based on an understanding of museum learning as an experience that occurs within a personal, social, and physical context, it explores why, for whom, and how these contexts can be orchestrated in museum galleries with optimal results.
Marjoribanks, K. (1979) Families and Their Learning Environments:An
EmpiricalAnalysis, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Marjoribanks, K. (2002)
Family and School Capital: Towards a Context Theory ofStudents' School
Outcomes, ...
Author: Gill Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136469787
Category: Education
Page: 240
View: 152
How can we create effective partnerships between home, school and the community? How can the relationships and communication between families and school be strengthened? How can families help schools to improve behaviour in their children, both at home and at school? Using a tried and tested framework that has been successfully implemented throughout a wide variety of very different schools and settings, ‘Family Values’ is a Scheme which engages and empowers families to work in close collaboration with schools and organisations, and which results in long-term improvements in behaviour, communication, pupil achievement and relationships. The ‘Family Values’ Scheme has been proven to: Help pupils to be more academically diligent Help schools to assume a calmer, more peaceful ambience Forge better pupil-teacher relationships Improve Pupil and teacher wellbeing Help parents to be more engaged with the school Improve children’s literacy, behaviour and attendance Provide head teachers and their staff with an effective whole-school strategy. The authors’ award-winning ‘Family Values’ Scheme is underpinned by sound theoretical principles, and they show here how it has been successfully put into practice through case studies in real school settings. The book explores how the Scheme promotes social, emotional and family system theories, and, in linking effectively to SEAL (social and emotional aspects of learning), the Scheme compliments existing personal and social education programmes in all schools. Showing schools and organisations how to create effective partnerships with families and the community in a fun, exciting and sustainable way, Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations will be of huge benefit to all school staff, as well as local authorities, support groups, parents, charities and services.
Much of the work early years (EY) settings and primary schools are engaged in is
closely linked with children and their families. Therefore, in seeking to enable the
best learning environments and support for children to achieve at school we ...
Author: Gianna Knowles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136517303
Category: Education
Page: 208
View: 182
How can adults in Early Years settings and primary schools fully embrace the diverse nature of family life of the children they are working with? This essential text will help students and those already working with children to understand both theoretically and practically, what may constitute a ‘family’. It explores how to build relationships with a child’s family to ensure early years settings and schools are working in partnership with children’s home environments, thereby supporting the best possible learning outcomes for children. It will help the reader to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding of their professional practice in education, and chapter by chapter explores the challenges that may be experienced in working with the diverse nature of family life in the UK, including: mixed race families immigrant, refugee and asylum seeker families step-families and step-parenting gay and lesbian families families and adoption fostering and children in care families living in poverty families and bereavement families and disability (including mental health). Understanding Family Diversity and Home-School Relations is engagingly practical, using case study examples throughout, and providing reflective activities to help the reader consider how to develop their practice in relation to the insights this book provides. It is a unique road-map to understanding pupils’ backgrounds, attitudes and culture and will be essential reading for any student undertaking relevant Foundation and BA Degrees, including those in initial teacher training, taking post-graduate qualifications or as part of a practitioner’s professional development.
Not since the mid-19th century's period of fluctuating genealogical popularity (
Taylor & Crandal, 1986) have we seen so many people in the western world
tracing their family tree. In the United States alone, Maritz reports a rise in
genealogical ...
Author: Joel Weiss
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402038037
Category: Education
Page: 1615
View: 450
The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments was developed to explore Virtual Learning Environments (VLE’s), and their relationships with digital, in real life and virtual worlds. The book is divided into four sections: Foundations of Virtual Learning Environments; Schooling, Professional Learning and Knowledge Management; Out-of-School Learning Environments; and Challenges for Virtual Learning Environments. The coverage ranges across a broad spectrum of philosophical perspectives, historical, sociological, political and educational analyses, case studies from practical and research settings, as well as several provocative "classics" originally published in other settings.
These organizations often provide children and their families with vital support
services such as assistance in housing, medical care, mental ... 20 The
Handbook for Developing Supportive Learning Environments Barriers to
Establishing a Team.
Author: Teddy Holtz- Frank
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317922254
Category: Education
Page: 240
View: 437
This book provides practical strategies and guidelines to improve student success and develop supportive learning environments. It is geared for school administrators, teachers, trainers, business and organizational leaders, community organizers, faith based leaders, and all those who work to improve schools. The easy-to use tools can be applied to initiatives already underway in your school, such as No Child Left Behind Mandates, School Improvement Grants, Title I Programs, and Teacher Education and Mentoring Programs
Develop and embed a culture of family engagement in all aspects of your early childhood program, from curriculum planning to addressing children's individual needs.
Author: Kelly Ramsey
Publisher:
ISBN: 1938113454
Category: Education
Page: 140
View: 545
Learn how to work with and relate to the family of each child in an early childhood education program. Includes ideas about transforming the way schools and programs relate to families - each one according to their unique assets and needs with the goal of enriching and enlivening the school community and ensuring better outcomes for each child and the entire program. It will emphasize strategies for getting to know each family the way you get to know an individual person, and learn about their interests, their strengths, their style of interacting and their needs/challenges to encourage programs to move away from one-size-fits-all approaches to family engagement.
STRENGTHS OF THE HOME AND FAMILY AS LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Norma Bobbitt(1) and Beatrice ... thought about the pattern of your answers to the
questions, you recognized most of the answers identified some family member.
Author: R.P. Boger
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781475796766
Category: Psychology
Page: 235
View: 507
This volume is intended to address contemporary aspects of child rearing in the home and the school, as well as major dimensions of inter face between the home and the school. The authors of these chapters have used varying styles and approaches, and the range of perspectives is very broad and inclusive. An essential notion integrating all chapters is that child rearing is a human ecological concern of dominant importance for the home, the school, and the community during the 1980's and that this will continue to be true in the future. This volume is intended to be useful as a reference book, as a text, for researchers and for policy-makers. It is hoped that the volume also will be of use to parents, teachers, school administrators, child-care workers and others who are interested in child nurturance. The editors wish to extend appreciation to many individuals who made this effort possible. Our colleagues, Hiram Fitzgerald and Marjorie Kostelnik, have been most helpful and encouraging. We thank them for their patience, support, and invaluable editorial assistance during the production of the camera-ready copy of the volume. We also thank Barbara Taylor for her assistance in typing the chapters, and Carrie DeMyers for typing the camera-ready copy. Carrie's good-nature and posi tive outlook helped to smooth over the many frustrations inherent in the assembly and production of anthologies such as this one.
