Family-School Partnerships in Context

?This book, the third of four sequential, edited volumes in the Research on Family-School Partnerships series, focuses on context considerations in family-school partnership research. Each chapter highlights critical findings by seminal researchers, addressing topics such as inputs, mechanisms, diversity, and statistical techniques to model relationships and change. In addition, the book examines such key topics as how cultural diversity affects family-school processes and outcomes and how it can be leveraged to create connections and strengthen relationships between students, families, and schools; diversity in parenting, including race, education, culture, household practices, and family history; diverse school variables, such as geographic locale, population density, and policies and organizational factors; and statistical methods to understand variables that influence the observed effects of family-school partnerships.

Susan M. Sheridan, Ph.D., is a George Holmes University Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, well known for her research on family-school partnerships and family engagement. She has managed numerous significant federal grants investigating the efficacy of a consultation-based partnership model, which have resulted in several publications and professional presentations. She has received several professional awards and has served in many leadership positions in the fields of school and educational psychology.

Elizabeth Moorman Kim received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently co-principal investigator of a federally funded research project examining the effects of interventions targeting parental involvement in children’s learning and family-school partnerships housed at the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests include family-school partnerships, parenting and children’s motivation and achievement in school.