Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have done with their child… But mostly mothers feel that their areas of competence are very much… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in the life of the child. This mutuality of knowledge, understanding, and empathy comes not only with a recognition of the child as the central purpose for the collaboration but also with a recognition of the need to maintain… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share
Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and responsive to… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The ambiguous, gray areas of authority and responsibility between parents and teachers exacerbate the distrust between them. The distrust is further complicated by the… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
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