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

• Autore: Levenstein Phyllis <1916->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia PA, : Temple University Press, c2008
• Edizione: Rev. and updated ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 372.119/2
• Soggetto topico: Child development - United States; Learning ability; Education, Preschool - Parent participation - United States; Mother and child - United States; Academic achievement - United States
• Altri autori: LevensteinSusan
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Messages from home
• ISBN: 1-59213-678-8; 1-281-97322-X; 9786611973223
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782439103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II