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Bringing into being a curriculum of parents has been a celebratory aspect of my teaching life. For years, it was something I envisioned as I researched, read, learned, and talked with others about a reconceptualization of parents’ place in their children’s schooling. I remember leaving the meeting in which I was told that I could move forward with the development and offering of graduate courses focused on parents and families, knowing that moment was one of significance, a marker in a journey.
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Pushor, D. (2013). Planning and Living a Curriculum of Parents. In: Portals of Promise. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-386-7_2
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