Engaging Hard to Reach Parents - Reading Recovery Council of ...

• According to Taylor & Dorsey (1988):
If we are to teach, we must first examine our own
assumptions about families and children and we
must be alert to the negative images in the
literature…Instead of responding to pathologies,
we must recognize that what we see may actually
be healthy adaptations to an uncertain and
stressful world. As teachers, researchers,
[administrators], and policymakers, we need to
think about the children themselves and try to
imagine the contextual worlds of their day-to-day
lives. (p. 203)