Partnership and conflict between parents and schools: how are schools reacting to the new participation law in Flanders (Belgium)?

Autor/inn/en	Dom, Leen; Verhoeven, Jef
Titel	Partnership and conflict between parents and schools: how are schools reacting to the new participation law in Flanders (Belgium)?
Quelle	In: Journal of education policy, 21 (2006) 5, S. 567-597Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939; 1464-5106
DOI	10.1080/02680930600866132
Schlagwörter	Vergleichsuntersuchung; Konflikt; Partnerschaft; Belgien; Elternvertretung; Europa; Grundschule; Partnerschaft; Konflikt; Schulpolitik; Flandern; Schulpolitik; Elternmitwirkung; Elternvertretung; Grundschule; Rechtsgrundlage; Belgien; Europa; Flandern
Abstract	This paper explores the relationship between parents and schools. Over the last 30 years the importance attached to parents' views on education has increased significantly throughout the Western world. Policy-makers encourage parental participation and involvement through the creation of councils in which parents have a say. In Flanders in Belgium in 2004 a new participation law was passed. We study the impact of this law on the micropolitical relations between parents, school heads and teachers. We conducted in-depth interviews with teachers, parents, school heads and members of the organizing body in four primary schools and observed parents' gatherings. Starting from the partnership-conflict opposition, we focus on the functioning of the parents' associations and the way parents' associations, school heads and teachers are dealing with this new law. We found that the parent-school relationship differs greatly from school to school. While the socio-economic middle class predominates in the four parents' associations, the results show that parental empowerment is enhanced only in those schools with mainly socio-economically weak families. (DIPF/orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2007/3