TY - BOOK AU - Rollande, Deslandes TI - International perspectives on contexts, communities and evaluated innovative practices SN - 978-0-415-47949-3 U1 - 323.4 PY - 2009/// CY - Estados Unidos de América PB - Pendiente de Captura] KW - INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES KW - FAMILY SCHOOL N1 - 1. Four key policy questions about parent engagement recommendation from the evidence. 2. Family - school partnership in theory and practice of the Czech schools: conflict between ideal and reality. 3. Home-school collaboration in two Chinese societies: Hong Kong and Macao. 4. ´Class acts´: home school involvement and working - class parents in the UK. 5. Creating effective family - school partnerships in highly diverse contexts: building partnership models and constructing parent typologies; Eduacón Básica N2 - This synthesis of the latest knowledge on homework presents unique findings byresearchers from various countries and diverse professional backgrounds. It approaches thetopic of homework from several perspectives, including its political and cultural contextsaspects of parental involvement and parent-child relationships school contexts and practicesobservable impacts It highlights homework-specific concerns and considers two principalsolutions. Firstly, support initiatives from schools and communities UR - http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i2h8AgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE70bxZ1EgpNvQT9Gt8yFtj3TBitRdfVVf1NHfCe_no1EsAhgTuxBqvkSNsdH8kVpE-GdWyFoz9PzBGpmkHzKiwypOccaXWnchSrY_jtHxGkPzAcpSix3xIDu8IE7DzrbdT8oB3W0 ER -