The Family Link to Education
The Road to Personal and Professional Success
By (author) Rex A. Holiday, Steve Sonntag
Publication date:
13 December 2018Length of book:
144 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781475845167
The Family Link to Education: The Road to Personal and Professional Success is a source of information that is current and relevant for families, educators and communities that want to provide the best possible opportunities for the up and coming generations. Beginning with the family, the book gets right at the root of how the future leaders, entrepreneurs, and educators of our local, national and worldwide communities are molded by early childhood influences. The book offers many suggestions to those who (by right or circumstance) have dibs on the earliest intellectual development of children. After digging down into the family perspective of education, the book transitions to a more subject matter expert perspective on education and the educator’s view of education. The student is the focus of the second part of the book, and finally, there is a reiteration of an inescapable fact; families in their various kinds, sizes and formats are the foundations upon which our communities are built.
This book serves as a call to action for families to unite generations by understanding how their histories, traditions, and cultures shape education for their children. Within its pages Holiday and Sonntag dispel myths of education as an individual endeavor and weave a narrative of education as an integrative effort between parents, students, and teachers wherein collaborative work provides the best educational outcomes. In the end, readers will find a book chock-full of insights from authors who are passionate about teaching and learning in all its forms.