Messages from home [[electronic resource] ] : the parent-child home program for overcoming educational disadvantage / / Phyllis Levenstein and Susan Levenstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782439103321
• Autore: Levenstein Phyllis <1916->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia PA, : Temple University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-59213-678-8; 1-281-97322-X; 9786611973223
• Edizione: [Rev. and updated ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LevensteinSusan
• Disciplina: 372.119/2
• Soggetti: Child development - United States; Learning ability; Education, Preschool - Parent participation - United States; Mother and child - United States; Academic achievement - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Coauthor's Preface; Prologue to the Second Edition; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Two Mothers, Two Children: Program Participants; 2. Poverty in the Twenty-First Century: Parental Love Fights Back; 3. "Show, Not Tell": The Parent-Child Home Program Method; 4. Underpinnings: The Theory behind The Parent-Child Home Program; 5. How Effective Is The Parent-Child Home Program?; 6. Methodological Issues in Intervention Research: Lessons from The Parent-Child Home Program Experience; 7. From Laboratory to Real World: Successful Replication of a Successful Intervention; 8. Preventing a Dream from Becoming a Nightmare: The Ethics of Home Visiting Programs 9. Ludic Literacy: Prelude to Instrumental Literacy; 10. Messages from Home: Meditations and Conclusions; 11. The Parent-Child Home Program in Writing: Publications by and about the Program, 1968-2007; Appendix. Outcome Measures Created by The Parent-Child Home Program; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Parent-Child Home Program, a pre-preschool home visiting ; program, has grown greatly since the first edition of Messages from Home was published in 1988. This expanded and updated edition shows the continued success of this program-spearheaded by the late Phyllis Levenstein-which prepares at-risk children for school success, overcoming educational disadvantage. Since The Parent-Child Home Program was founded in the 1960's, it has enriched the cognitive, social, and emotional school readiness of tens of thousands of children. The Program's methods, its theoretical underpinnings