Book Title: Children, Families, Schools, and Communities

Author: Joan Giovannini

Book Description: Children, Families, Schools, and Communities is an introductory text in the field of Child and Family Studies. It provides a lens for understanding the evolving definition of “family”. It promotes strategies for culturally sustaining and deeply collaborative relationships. Children, Families, Schools, and Communities is an adapted OER text from Rebecca Laff’s and Wendy Ruiz’s "Child, Family, and Community".

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Children, Families, Schools, and Communities is an introductory text in the field of Child and Family Studies.  It provides a lens for understanding the evolving definition of “family” through socially constructed and ecological theory frameworks.   It promotes strategies for culturally sustaining and deeply collaborative relationships between families, schools, and communities through the use of home-grown advocacy strategies based on community-driven data.  Children, Families, Schools, and Communities is an adapted OER text from Rebecca Laff’s and Wendy Ruiz’s Child, Family, and Community.

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Joan Giovannini

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Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

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Title
Children, Families, Schools, and Communities
Author
Joan Giovannini
License
Primary Subject
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Additional Subject(s)
Family psychology, Family and health, Social groups, communities and identities
Institution
Holyoke Community College
Publisher
ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks with an Equity Lens) Project
Publication Date
May 23, 2023