Originally published in 1983, this book offers a perspective on the secondary school years from the standpoint at home. In the early 1980s as now, there was no shortage of advice to parents on how they should bring up their children, and what their relationship should be with the schools their children attended. More rarely heard was the parents voice of experience on the stages of family life and how the childrens school life is seen from the family point of view. The purpose of this book was to urge reconsideration of taken-for-granted assumptions about the appropriate relationship between home and secondary school. It can be read today in its historical context.
Acknowledgements. Part I: Introduction and Background
1. A New Enquiry
into Home/School Relations
2. Themes in the Study of Home/School Relations
Part II: The New Research
3. Before the Secondary School Years
4. Parents and
Secondary Teachers in Contact
5. Parents and Teenagers
6. What the School
Asks of Parents
7. Home, School and the Welfare Agencies Part III: Summary
and Reflections
8. Family and Secondary School The Relationship
Re-assessed. Appendix: Methods of the Research Study. Bibliography. Index.
Daphne Johnson and Elizabeth Ransom
