"They Want a Reply Immediately!" Teachers' Perceptions about Contact between Home and School

Autor/inn/en	Hedlin, Maria; Frank, Elisabeth
Titel	"They Want a Reply Immediately!" Teachers' Perceptions about Contact between Home and School
Quelle	In: Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 11 (2022) 2, S.271-289 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hedlin, Maria) ORCID (Frank, Elisabeth)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2147-0456
Schlagwörter	Teacher Attitudes; Family School Relationship; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Parent Participation; Foreign Countries; Elementary School Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; Interpersonal Communication; Information Technology; Internet; Electronic Mail; Time Management; Teacher Responsibility; Leisure Time; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerverhalten; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Elternmitwirkung; Ausland; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Informationstechnologie; Elektronischer Briefkasten; Zeitmanagement; Lehrverpflichtung; Freizeit; Schweden
Abstract	In many countries today, there is emphasis on teachers' interaction with parents. Also, parents are expected to be involved in their children's schooling. Teacher education, however, has been criticized for not preparing the prospective teachers sufficiently for the task. International studies have found on the one hand that digital technology facilitates teachers' communication with guardians, and on the other hand that communication via email risks leading to negative consequences. The aim of this study is to explore how the contact between home and school is perceived from a group of Swedish teachers' perspective. The empirical material consists of questionnaires directed to schoolteachers. In this paper, we analyse how teachers have answered open-ended questions posed in the questionnaire. The teachers report that it has become much more common for parents to contact them, in particular via email, and parents expect teachers to be available for them and respond quickly. The teachers try to establish their own individual guidelines for how to handle parental contacts. Our conclusion is that collegial cooperation could facilitate the teachers' tasks involving parents, and that teacher education should address the issue of how to combine good working conditions with a professional approach and good relations with the parents. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Uludag University, Education Faculty, Department of Educational Sciences. Bursa, Turkey. e-mail: jtee.editor@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jtee.org; Web site: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jtee
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01