Other Kinds of Families

The authors contend that the vast diveristy found iin schools and society today suggests an urgent need to reconsider the ways in which families are currently represented and addressed in school curriculum and culture. In this important volume, they provide critical and theorectical analyses comvined with narrative experiences to address such issues at multi-generational vies of the schooling experience of immigrant families, the education needs of gay and lesbian families, the representation of adoption and adoptive families in children's literature, and the experiences of homeless students.Turner-Vorbeck, Tammy is the author of 'Other Kinds of Families', published 2007 under ISBN 9780807748398 and ISBN 0807748390.