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Family Life Education Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach
- Stephen F. Duncan - Brigham Young University, USA
- H. Wallace Goddard - University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
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“Duncan and Goddard provide an in-depth coverage of the essentials needed by the educator who seeks to provide learning experiences that are responsive to the need of those who see to plan and evaluate outreach education programs. Educators are guided from conceptualization and planning strategies, to implementation strategies, to evaluation and revision strategies for outreach efforts.”
- Completely updated and revised to reflect current best practices and existing knowledge in outreach family life education (FLE).
- A new chapter on mentoring–offers budding and experienced family life educators helpful advice for finding their place in the field of family life education.
- Subject matter chapters have been thoroughly updated with new information on marriage and relationship education, parenting education, sexuality education, and education to help individuals flourish.
- An updated Narratives of Family Life Educators chapter–provides across time, real-life accounts from the previous edition’s educators to convey the experiences, rewards, and challenges of doing family life education.
- Updates on media use in FLE–includes a larger emphasis on using social media.
- A focus on the art of FLE, or getting our hearts right, as a principle for engaging learners.
- The text includes a new and substantial collection of media ideas for teaching family life education concepts.
- Historical perspectives have been updated to reflect the increased variability of FLE methods, including family coaching.
- The authors' practical, hands-on experience is used to demonstrate how readers can put principles from the latest and best scholarship into action.
- Interactive Explorations sections include real-world questions and activities that give students practice in applying principles.
- Conclusions sections at the end of each chapter summarize key points so readers can review the material they just read.
Family Life Education in China
- First Online: 19 July 2018
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Education about families in China has evolved in essence from ancient family rules for maintaining its members’ roles and responsibilities based on Confucius philosophy, parenting and parent education, to the recent emergence of relational skill training. This chapter aims to first illuminate the evolutional processes of family life education (FLE) and the FLE in the social, economic, historical, and cultural context of Chinese families today. The chapter specifically focuses on stresses and challenges that families face during Chinese economic and social reforms and the FLE development in both practice and theory that intend to address these stresses. China has introduced policies to promote healthy relationship, increase awareness of child and woman abuse, and protect the elderly through education. Chinese FLE has challenges in development and limitations in implementation. Lessons may be learned from Hong Kong’s successes. Chinese FLE programs have been created, mainly with focus on early childhood education and parenting. The chapter concludes that systematic family life education will eventually emerge as a professional field.
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