Messages from home : the parent-child home program for overcoming educational disadvantage

Messages from home the parent-child home program for overcoming educational disadvantage

The Parent-Child Home Program, a pre-preschool home visiting program, has grown greatly since the first edition of Messages from Home was published in 1988. This expanded and updated edition shows the continued success of this program-spearheaded by the late Phyllis Levenstein-which prepares at-risk...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levenstein, Phyllis, 1916- (-)
Other Authors: Levenstein, Susan
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press c2008.
Edition:Rev. and updated ed
Subjects:
Child development > United States.
Learning ability.
Education, Preschool > Parent participation > United States.
Mother and child > United States.
Academic achievement > United States.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798527106719
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Foreword; Coauthor's Preface; Prologue to the Second Edition; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Two Mothers, Two Children: Program Participants; 2. Poverty in the Twenty-First Century: Parental Love Fights Back; 3. "Show, Not Tell": The Parent-Child Home Program Method; 4. Underpinnings: The Theory behind The Parent-Child Home Program; 5. How Effective Is The Parent-Child Home Program?; 6. Methodological Issues in Intervention Research: Lessons from The Parent-Child Home Program Experience; 7. From Laboratory to Real World: Successful Replication of a Successful Intervention
  • 8. Preventing a Dream from Becoming a Nightmare: The Ethics of Home Visiting Programs 9. Ludic Literacy: Prelude to Instrumental Literacy; 10. Messages from Home: Meditations and Conclusions; 11. The Parent-Child Home Program in Writing: Publications by and about the Program, 1968-2007; Appendix. Outcome Measures Created by The Parent-Child Home Program; References; Index

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