Parents Matter

By Lesley Abbott

Subjects: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Parent participation, Care, Child welfare, Infants, Development, Child development, Parent and child, Early childhood education, Social Sciences, Education, EDUCATION, Preschool children, Theory & Practice of Education

Description: This book explores the important role of parents and the extended family in the lives of babies and young children. It complements and extends the DfES Birth to Three Matters framework, which supports practitioners in working with children aged birth to three, and builds on the information provided in the companion book Birth to Three Matters: Supporting the Framework of Effective Practice (Open University Press, 2004). Written by academics, practitioners and policy makers interested or involved in the development of the Birth to Three Matters framework, this book argues that parent engagement.