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A textbook for education courses in Parent/Home-School Relations.

This highly practical and popular text examines the nature of the contemporary family and its relationship to the school, and provides teachers practical advice for developing strong partnerships with their students' families in order to better understand the complexities of home-school relations.


Supporting family members as full partners in education, this text stresses the need for teachers to have positive working relationships with the children that they teach. By understanding the nature of the contemporary family and the diversity of the families from which their students come, teachers can learn how to build those relationships. This text takes a topical approach. Beyond its in-depth look at ever-evolving families, this text provides solid, practical examples of building good home-school partnerships and fostering parent involvement.

In addition to covering the traditional topics of ethnic families, change in families, and parent-teacher communication, Olsen, Fuller, and their contributors delve further into the issues facing families today. Looking at the effects of poverty, advocacy, the father's role, parents' perspectives on schools, family/domestic violence, bullying, and school violence on families, the authors offer practical techniques that give educators the tools to cope with the many factors affecting their students.

Diversity (cultural, racial, religious and sexual orientation) is integrated throughout the text, making Home-School Relations one of the leading texts available to prepare teachers for all the forms of diversity they will encounter. Additionally, the text includes a multitude of practical information such as descriptions of the successful parent-involvement programs, contains an excellent chapter on communication skills and activities, helps educators understand the legal and policy aspects of home-school relations and educational choices, and incorporates working with students with special needs in the classroom.

Glenn Olsen is currently a professor and department chair in the Teaching and Learning Department at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. He has a bachelor’s degree from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Oregon, a M.S. degree in Child Development from the University of Wisconsin―Madison, and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Wisconsin―Madison. He has taught American History and Urban Studies at Jefferson School and South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has also directed child care centers in rural communities and in technical colleges in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He has over 30 articles on different education issues published and another book co-authored with John Hoover called Teasing and Harassment: The Frames and Scripts Approach for Teachers and Parents. Glenn served on the Crookston, Minnesota School Board for eight years. He has three adult children and his wife Barb teaches kindergarten.

 

Mary Lou Fuller has been an elementary school teacher, school psychologist, and a university faculty member. At the time she retired from the University of North Dakota, she was a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and held the Rose Isabelle Kelley Fischer Chair of Education. She received three Master’s Degrees from Arizona State University and her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. Her studies dealt with diversity in the classroom and in families, and diversity is central to most of her research and publications. Among her publications are two other college textbooks, Teaching Hispanic Children and Adult Learners on Campus, co-authored with colleagues. Mary Lou now lives on a ranch in the high desert of Arizona and teaches off-campus classes for Northern Arizona University. She enjoys communicating with other educators and welcomes email at mary_fuller@und.edu.