Handbook on Families and Education

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Handbook on Families and Education

Theory, Research and Practice

9781035300679 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Sivanes Phillipson, Chair of Education, School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, Swinburne University of Technology, Wendy Goff, Associate Professor and Deputy Head, School of Education VIC,Australian Catholic University and Susanne Garvis, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University, Mount Gravatt, Queensland, Victoria, Australia
Publication Date: February 2025 ISBN: 978 1 03530 067 9 Extent: c 484 pp
This timely Handbook presents vital perspectives underpinning historical, current, and emerging trends within family and education studies. Editors Sivanes Phillipson, Wendy Goff and Susanne Garvis bring together a diverse collective of authors to holistically depict the unique role of families within education.

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This timely Handbook presents vital perspectives underpinning historical, current, and emerging trends within family and education studies. Editors Sivanes Phillipson, Wendy Goff and Susanne Garvis bring together a diverse collective of authors to holistically depict the unique role of families within education.

The Handbook on Families and Education is an important compendium of both theoretical and real-world studies, shedding light on various interdisciplinary perspectives covering sociology, linguistics, economics, and public policy. Both historical and contemporary research models, including integrative models, the Actiotope Model, and the Peripheral Model, are utilized to highlight the truly central role of the family in learning processes, and to ultimately encourage readers to finalize their own educational theories.

Scholars and students of sociology, education policy, teaching, and early childhood education will find this Handbook to be of great interest. Educators will additionally benefit from its practical insights.
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‘Families play a pivotal role in optimizing learning. This Handbook makes explicit this under-stated factor in the learning equation. Activating the power of families has the potential to transform the educational experience of every learner … and the effectiveness of every teacher. This book is the first of its kind, providing insights, frameworks, tools and intentional strategies from leaders of the field world-wide to catalyze the impact of families in the education ecosystem. It is timely and profound.’
– Donna Pendergast, Griffith University, Australia
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SECTION I INTRODUCTION
1 Families in education 2
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