Partnering with Families: Connections and Disconnections When Linking Theory to Practice.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Post, Hillary; Furman, Cara E.
- Source
- Schools: Studies in Education; Fall2020, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p234-254, 21p
- Subject
- Theory-practice relationship
Elementary school teachers
Families
Teacher educators
Nuclear families
- Language
- ISSN
- 15501175
This article tells the story of a teacher and a teacher educator as they grappled, together and apart, with the same question: What does it mean to work well with families as elementary school teachers? Specifically, it interrogates what it means to partner with families. To do so they investigate how partnering with families has led to connections and disconnections when facing the particulars of daily work in an elementary school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]