Research Catalog

Title

The impact of school choice and community : in the interest of families and schools / Claire Smrekar.

Author

Smrekar, Claire.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.

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Details

Description

v, 204 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This book offers a response to the policy failures associated with parent involvement in schools by arguing against traditional, piecemeal approaches to enhancing parent involvement in schools, and amplifying the importance of parents' social networks in the discussion of family-school partnerships. The interaction between social structure and school organization provides compelling indications of the need to recast the concept of parent involvement to one of community building.

Series Statement

SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy

Uniform Title

SUNY series, youth social services, schooling, and public policy

Subject

• Education > Parent participation > United States > Case studies
• School choice > United States > Case studies
• Community and school > United States > Case studies
• Educational sociology > United States > Case studies
• Community and school
• Education > Parent participation
• Educational sociology
• School choice
• Schulwahl
• Community school
• Eltern
• Gemeinde
• Schoolkeuze
• Ouderparticipatie
• Opbouwwerk
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.

Contents

Chapter 1: In whose interest? -- Chapter 2: St. Martin's school -- Chapter 3: Carlton School -- Chapter 4: Western School -- Chapter 5: Family life, school organization, and community -- Chapter 6: The call for community.

ISBN

• 0791426130
• 9780791426135
• 0791426149
• 9780791426142
• 9780585076577
• 058507657X

LCCN

94040526

OCLC

• ocm31376409
• 31376409
• SCSB-8913174

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library