High-Risk Children In Schools Constructing Sustaining Relationships [Paperback]

High Risk Children in Schoolsoffers a way for psychologists and educators to see and talk about the growing population of at-risk children--those likely to fail at formal schooling--while helping to redefine the relationship between schools and families.

Using systems theory and developmental psychology, the authors present a new framework for the study and education of children who are at-risk. This framework--the Contextual Systems Model--creates a dialogue between the child and schooling through which meaning, goals, and experiences are shared and accepted.Robert C. Piantais Associate Professor of Clinical and School Psychology in the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia. Daniel J. Walshis Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.