Lisa J. Harpin 
Promising Partnerships 
Ways to Involve Parents in Their Children’s Education

Unlike many current approaches, this book looks at trust relations in order to understand schooling and other social practices. Trust relations include both what an individual is prepared to trust in …

This powerful text encourages both pre-service and established teachers, as well as teacher educators, to engage with contemporary debates in primary education. Promoting a critical approach, the cha …

This book explores how school leaders—both formal and informal—can create a supportive culture that leverages teamwork and empowers teachers to become leaders. By focusing on three foundational princ …

This book explores various frameworks within which post-school education is situated and the practice that actually happens in classrooms and lecture theatres, especially when things go wrong. …

Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care radically challenges the role assigned to parents in neoliberal discussions of early childhood education and care, and presents new w …

You know you cannot ‘fail’ the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), but if you”re planning a career in the military, you”ll want to prepare before taking these mandatory exams. The P …

Play that stimulates young minds. Play is the language that babies know best. Here, readers will find over 300 games to play with infants from one week to eighteen months old. Divided into games that …

Calm the chaos and transform your home into a space that fosters curiosity, creativity, and independence Too often, the toys, games, and other materials meant to educate young children end up being a …

This edited volume examines the thrust toward equity in education for marginalized and out-of-school youth, as well as youth with disabilities, in countries located in the Global South. Using a c …

School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools, 3rd Edition prepares future teachers and administrators to conduct effective and equitable programs of family an …