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The Essential Conversation

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The Essential ConversationCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780345475800 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2004 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US Description: With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation the dialogue between the most vital people

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780345475800
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2004
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US


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With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation-the dialogue between the most vital people in a child's life.




"The essential conversation" is the crucial exchange that occurs between parents and teachers-a dialogue that takes place more than one hundred million times a year across our country and is both mirror of and metaphor for the larger cultural forces that define family-school relationships and shape the development of our children. Participating in this twice-yearly ritual, so friendly and benign in its apparent goals, parents and teachers are often wracked with anxiety. In a meeting marked by decorum and politeness, they frequently exhibit wariness and assume defensive postures. Even though the conversation appears to be focused on the student, adults may find themselves playing out their own childhood histories, insecurities, and fears.




Through vivid portraits and parables, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot captures the dynamics of this complex, intense relationship from the perspective of both parents and teachers. She also identifies new principles and practices for improving family-school relationships. In a voice that combines the passion of a mother, the skepticism of a social scientist, and the keen understanding of one of our nation's most admired educators, Lawrence-Lightfoot offers penetrating analysis and an urgent call to arms for all those who want to act in the best
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