A research-based, up-to-the minute account of the current status of antenatal education, focusing on the key challenges it faces in the future, offering suggestions for how these challenges might best be met. It describes some innovative approaches to accessing vulnerable groups of parents and how collaboration between the statutory and voluntary sectors might result in a better educational service for pregnant women and their families. Narratives from parents are analysed and commented upon, and underpinning the book will be an account of how the principles and practices of adult education should inform antenatal education.
Chapter 1: Childbirth and Parenting Education: what the research says and why we may ignore it Chapter 2 : Context and Purpose: learning styles and principles of adult education Chapter 3: Why Education for Birth is Important Chapter 4: Birthing and Parenting Education for Men Chapter 5: Are Midwives Empowered Enough to Offer Empowering Education? Chapter 6: Innovative Practice in Birth Education: Birmingham Womens Hospital Bith Ideas Workshop 000 Chapter 7: Best Practice in Antenatal EducationImproving services for women of South Asian heritageParent education classes for South Asian Women: SAMPADThe Albany Practice, South East London: antenatal and postnatal groupsThe Bellevue Project: local classes for local women4U Teenage Pregnancy GroupBlackburn Teenage Mothers GroupThe Cafe Class (National Childbirth Trust)Chapter 8 : Education for Birth and Parenting: where next? Index
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