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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Making Change in Early Head Start
Patrice W. Hallock
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Description for One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Making Change in Early Head Start
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This book describes the experience of families who are participants in an Early Head Start program for families with infants and toddlers who live in poverty. The author examines the lives of the families as they go about their daily routines, attend the Head Start center, and receive home visits. Hallock seeks to understand the complex relationships between families and the Early Head Start home visitors who are there to support them and help improve their lives. This book provides insight on how institutions such as Head Start can influence relationship-based work, providing hope for families and home visitors as ... Read more
This book describes the experience of families who are participants in an Early Head Start program for families with infants and toddlers who live in poverty. The author examines the lives of the families as they go about their daily routines, attend the Head Start center, and receive home visits. Hallock seeks to understand the complex relationships between families and the Early Head Start home visitors who are there to support them and help improve their lives. This book provides insight on how institutions such as Head Start can influence relationship-based work, providing hope for families and home visitors as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of America
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761844471
SKU
V9780761844471
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About Patrice W. Hallock
Patrice W. Hallock, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Education at Utica College, where she teaches inclusion, special education, and early intervention classes in the Education and Psych-Child Life programs.
Reviews for One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Making Change in Early Head Start
Hallock's most important contribution with this work may be less with what she found than how she got to those findings. She enters the lives of these families as a scientist seeking answers to important questions. She joins them where they are with compassion, hope, and reflection. In doing so, she tells a very compelling story, a story of life ... Read more