Product Description: This book examines experiences and implications of 'against-the-grain' school choices, where white middle class families choose ordinary and 'low performing' secondary schools for their children. It offers a unique view of identity formation, taking in matters like family history, locality and whiteness...read more

Product Description: This book collects together important research on parents’ and carers’ involvement in the education of their children. The contributors stress the importance of dialog and action between teachers and parents so that parents actively share in making the right decisions about their children’s educational experience...read more

Product Description: Parents’ relationships with schools are changing. No longer passive recipients of a bureaucratic allocation system, they are increasingly making choices, negotiating and challenging authority -- all with a wealth of information that would have been unthinkable in the recent past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)