Partnerships with Families and Communities

"Working in partnership with families and communities is a crucial part of being an educator, and one that presents many opportunities and challenges in supporting quality education outcomes for students. Partnerships with Families and Communities: Building Dynamic Relationships is a comprehensive and accessible resource that provides pre-service teachers with the tools required to build effective, sustainable and proactive partnerships in both early childhood and primary educational settings. This text introduces models of home-school-community partnerships in educational contexts and presents a comprehensive partnerships approach for best practice in applying and leading effective relationships with key stakeholders. It explores essential underpinning policies, legislation and research theories that position strong, positive and proactive partnerships as a systemic solution to children's learning development. Key topics covered include diversity in partnership work, reflective practice and tools for evaluating working partnerships. Each chapter includes focused pedagogy, such as key terms and definitions, scenarios and review questions, which enable readers to deeply engage with new concepts. 'Proactive Partners' boxes explore real-world scenarios and encourage readers to link theory with practice. Written by a team of leading experts, Partnerships with Families and Communities empowers pre-service teachers to build authentic and sustainable partnerships with children, families and the communities they work in. Wendy Goff is the Director of Professional Experience in the School of Education at RMIT University. Sivanes Phillipson is Professor of Education at Swinburne University of Technology. Sharryn Clarke is a Kindergarten Improvement Advisor for the Victorian Department of Education and Training"--