TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giovannini,Joan
ED  - Open Textbook Library
TI  - Children, Families, Schools, and Communities [Revised Edition]
T2  - Open textbook library
AV  - L7 
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Open Textbook Library
KW  - Education
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Early Childhood
N1  - Introduction -- Chapter 1 - What Is A Family? -- Chapter 2 - Theories That Help Us Understand Families -- Chapter 3 - A Closer Look at Parenting -- Chapter 4 - What Is Gender and Why is it Important? -- Chapter 5 - Building Collaborative Relationships with Families of Children with Disabilities -- Chapter 6 - What is Culture and Why is it Important? -- Chapter 7 - Exploring the Core Competencies of Family Engagement -- Appendix -- References
N2  - 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
UR  - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/1630
ER  -