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Positive Relationships: PEAL - Parents as partners
By Helen Wheeler and Joyce Connor,
Nursery World,
19 March 2009
The importance of practitioners taking a genuine interest in families, their backgrounds and circumstances, to help improve everyday practice, is considered by Helen Wheeler and Joyce Connor in an extract from their book Parents, Early Years and Learning.
Avoiding stereotypes and valuing difference Knowing families well reduces the temptation to stereotype and make negative assumptions about parents' abilities, attitudes, lifestyles and interest in education. Siraj-Blatchford (2004) reminds us how crucial it is, when working with children, not to have low expectations because of stereotypes based on gender, class or ethnicity. In the same way, we need to view parents as...
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