Home-School Work in Britain: Review, Reflection, and Development

First Published in 1996. This book forms part of a series that brings together wide-ranging contributions which: are written from both professional and parental viewpoints; offer an assessment of what has been achieved; explore a number of problematic issues and experiences and illustrate developments that are beginning to take shape. It will appeal to those with a special interest in and commitment to home-school work in all its actual and potential facets. This book, like the series it introduces, is an attempt to capture the flavour of home-school work in Britain in the 1990s. It conveys a mixture of familiar concerns and recent developments, of shared interests and differences of approach that relate to differences of setting and circumstance.

John Bastiani has been the coordinator of the National Home-School Development Group since its formation. A former tutor at the University of Nottingham’s School of Education, he has recently been the director of the RSA’s ’Parents in Learning Society’ Project. He is a member of several national advisory groups, runs INSET courses around the UK and is a freelance consultant on home-school matters. Sheila Wolfendale has been a primary school and remedial reading teacher, an educational psychologist in several LEAs and is currently director of a Doctorate in Educational Psychology training programme at the University of East London. She has authored and edited many books, booklets, chapters, articles and handbooks on aspects of special needs, early years and parental involvement. She was awarded a Professorship in 1988 and in 1995 gained a PhD by published works.