Involving Parents in their Children's Learning 3/e

Chapter 1: New forms of provision, new ways of working: the Pen Green Centre - Margy Whalley Chapter 2: Developing evidence-based practice - Margy Whalley Chapter 3: The many different ways we involve families - Colette Tait and Angela Prodger Chapter 4: Sharing ideas with parents about key child development concepts - Cath Arnold Chapter 5: Parents and staff as co-educators: 'parents' means fathers too - Margy Whalley and Trevor Chandler Chapter 6: Working with parents who traditionally find our services 'hard to reach' - Cath Arnold Chapter 7: Parents as researchers - Penny Lawrence, Hannah Howe, Darren Howe and Sarah Marley Chapter 8: Dialogue and documentation: sharing information, developing a rich curriculum and a responsive pedagogy - Margy Whalley and Marcus Dennison Chapter 9: Sharing knowledge with families in a 'drop-in' provision within an integrated centre for children and families - Sandra Mole Chapter 10: The impact on parents' lives - Annette Cummings Chapter 11: Working in groups with parents of young children: growing together at the Pen Green Centre - Jo Benford and Colette Tait Chapter 12: Developing PICL in primary schools, children's centres and in childminder settings - Kate Hayward, Tracey Cotterell, June Smith, Andrea Layzell and Julie Denton Chapter 1: New forms of provision, new ways of working: the Pen Green Centre - Margy Whalley Chapter 2: Developing evidence-based practice - Margy Whalley Chapter 3: The many different ways we involve families - Colette Tait and Angela Prodger Chapter 4: Sharing ideas with parents about key child development concepts - Cath Arnold Chapter 5: Parents and staff as co-educators: 'parents' means fathers too - Margy Whalley and Trevor Chandler Chapter 6: Working with parents who traditionally find our services 'hard to reach' - Cath Arnold Chapter 7: Parents as researchers - Penny Lawrence, Hannah Howe, Darren Howe and Sarah Marley Chapter 8: Dialogue and documentation: sharing information, developing a rich curriculum and a responsive pedagogy - Margy Whalley and Marcus Dennison Chapter 9: Sharing knowledge with families in a 'drop-in' provision within an integrated centre for children and families - Sandra Mole Chapter 10: The impact on parents' lives - Annette Cummings Chapter 11: Working in groups with parents of young children: growing together at the Pen Green Centre - Jo Benford and Colette Tait Chapter 12: Developing PICL in primary schools, children's centres and in childminder settings - Kate Hayward, Tracey Cotterell, June Smith, Andrea Layzell and Julie Denton

For this edition, the research has been updated with some of the families and practitioners revisited. Two new chapters focus on parents as researchers and family drop-in sessions. This is a very important book, one that will prove invaluable in helping you develop parental partnerships and engagement to a level where you have two powerful 'sets of knowledge' working in the best interests of children. -- Neil Henty