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Bridging Cultures between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers--With a Special Focus on Immigrant Latino Families

This book focuses on how to meet the challenges of education in a pluralistic society, presenting the Bridging Cultures framework, which is designed for understanding differences and conflicts that arise in situations where school culture is more individualistic than the home value system. Six sections examine: (1) "The Bridging Cultures Framework" (e.g., what culture is, the dynamic nature of culture, individualism and collectivism, and strands of multicultural education); (2) "Parent Involvement: Recommended but Not Always Successful" (e.g., minority parent involvement, parent-school partnerships, and finding common ground); (3) "The Cross-Cultural Parent-Teacher Conference" (e.g., the tradition of parent-teacher conferences, using cultural knowledge to enhance communication, and improving parent-teacher conferences); (4) "Learning What Works" (e.g., understanding parents' points of view, evaluating the messages schools send, and developing closer personal relationships with families); (5) "Teachers as Researchers" (e.g., action research, inquiry and reflection, and ethnographic inquiry); and (6) "Conclusion: The Challenge of Coming Together" (e.g., the need for cultural knowledge, how Bridging Cultures fits into the big picture of school reform, and what is to be gained). An appendix presents the Bridging Cultures Project in brief. (Contains 191 references.) (SM)

• Contributor: Family Participation in Teaching & Learning, Culture of Change & Improvement, schoo/community relationship
• Author's address: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers, 10 Industrial Avenue, Mahwah, NJ 07430 ($17.50). Tel: 800-926-6579 (Toll Free).
• Date Published: 00-00
• Notes: Search the catalog at the library of the University of Colorado at Boulder. English ISBN: 0-8058-3519-9 With Marie Altchech, Catherine Daley, Kathryn Eyler, Elvia Hernandez, Giancarlo Mercado, Amada Irma Perez, and Pearl Saitzyk./ Funding: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. RJ96006901/ Audience: Practitioners/ Teachers Document (RIE) 010 Books; 055 Guides--Nonclassroom EDRS: Document Not Available from EDRS.
• Year: 2001

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NIUSI: Families & Communities: Culture
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Families & Communities: Group Identity
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Family Participation in Teaching & Learning
• Network/channel: NIUSI: School Organizational Effort: School/Community Relations

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