Parent Partnership - Is it Happening?

Authors

  • Aoife Ní Thiarnaigh

Keywords:

Parent Partnership, Teamwork, Collaboration, Relationship, Teacher-Parent, Involvement, Co-operation, Implications, Strategies, Guidelines, Support, Provision, Purposeful, Facilitation

Abstract

Parental involvement is an issue for all schools. In special education the intensity and urgency of the need is however particularly pertinent. How can teachers facilitate purposeful co-operation and what are the implications for the future? 

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Mittler, Peter. (1981). Quoted in Barton and Tomlinson, Special Education:Policy, Practices and Social Issues; London: Harper & Row.

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Published

1989-11-11

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Ní Thiarnaigh, A. (1989). Parent Partnership - Is it Happening?. REACH: Journal of Inclusive Education in Ireland, 2(2), 56–60. Retrieved from https://reachjournal.ie/index.php/reach/article/view/501

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (1989)

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