Exploring partnerships between parents and educators
This new publication explores the outlooks of early childhood education practitioners, families and children and the meanings they assign to relationships with one another, including how these can be enhanced.
Relationships with families in early childhood education and care: Beyond instrumentalization in international contexts of diversity and social inequality brings together the expertise of 29 authors from nine countries including Canada, Belgium, India, Singapore, Germany and Australia to explore new possibilities for creating and sustaining democratic relationships between parents and educators. Through a collection of 15 chapters, the book is grounded in the idea of establishing reciprocal partnerships between educators and parents, in which parent knowledge and educator knowledge are valued equally.
The book is comprised of three sections – Disrupting Partnerships, Parent Perspectives and Innovative Enactment of Partnerships, with specific chapters addressing topics such as barriers to building reciprocal partnerships, the role of different family members in building impactful relationships with educators, collaborating with Indigenous families, and reflections and practical examples across several international contexts.
“This book is very important to me as it showcases the diverse ways of working in partnerships with families,” says Professor Fay Hadley from the Macquarie School of Education.
“The book illustrates evidence-based examples of what this can look like in practice and will be a useful book for early childhood teachers and educators across the world. I am proud to be one of the editors of this book.”
Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is an ideal text for ECEC practitioners and policy makers, trainers, graduate students and researchers. The book is available for purchase from Routledge.