Partnerships with Families and Communities
Building Dynamic Relationships

Partnerships with Families and Communities empowers pre-service teachers to build partnerships with children, families and communities.

Wendy Goff (Author), Sivanes Phillipson (Author), Sharryn Clarke (Author)

9781108829694, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2023

228 pages, 75 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 1 cm, 0.405 kg

Partnerships with Families and Communities: Building Dynamic Relationships is a comprehensive and accessible resource that provides pre-service teachers with the tools required to build effective, sustainable and proactive partnerships in both early childhood and primary educational settings. This text introduces models of home-school-community partnerships in educational contexts and presents a comprehensive partnerships approach for best practice in applying and leading effective relationships with key stakeholders. It explores essential underpinning policies, legislation and research theories that position strong, positive and proactive partnerships as a systemic solution to children's learning development. Key topics covered include diversity in partnership work, reflective practice and tools for evaluating working partnerships. Each chapter includes focused pedagogy, key terms and definitions, scenarios and review questions, which enable readers to deeply engage with new concepts. 'Proactive Partners' boxes explore real-world scenarios and encourage readers to link theory with practice.

1. Exploring partnerships with families and communities
2. Diversity in partnership work
3. Exploring models of partnerships
4. Skills for engagement in effective partnership work
5. Plans for implementing effective partnerships
6. Strategies and challenges for implementing partnerships
7. Reflective practice in partnership work
8. Tools for evaluation of partnership work
9. Leading effective partnerships.

Subject Areas: Philosophy & theory of education [JNA]