Home, School, and Community Relations: A Guide to Working With Parents - Softcover

Carol Gestwicki had been an instructor in the Early Childhood Education program at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte North Carolina for over twenty years. Her teaching responsibilities have included supervising students in classroom situations as they work with parents. Earlier in her career she worked with children and families in a wide variety of community agencies and schools in Toronto New York New Jersey and Namibia. She received her MA from Drew University. She has been an active member of NAEYC for many years making numerous presentations at state and national conferences. Other publications include more than two dozen articles on child development and family issues and script-writing and design of fourteen audiovisual instructional programs.

"Easy to follow the progression of information in the chapters. Excellent supplemental resources. Easily read and understood by students ..."

"The greatest strengths are comprehensive coverage, up-to-date material, relevant research, state-of-the-art organization, complete bibliographies, relevance to our present day challenges in education, reflective of parents', students' and teachers' concerns, and specific case studies related to parents' problems."

"The organization of the material is very easy to work with. By addressing families and parenting at the beginning, the text creates the opportunity for a course to be child-centered, beginning with a look at those surrounding the child and affecting the child most intimately."