Effective Home-School Partnership: Some Strategies to Help Strengthen Parental Involvement

Autor/in	Okeke, Chinedu I.
Titel	Effective Home-School Partnership: Some Strategies to Help Strengthen Parental Involvement
Quelle	In: South African Journal of Education, 34 (2014) 3, Artikel 864 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0256-0100
Schlagwörter	Family School Relationship; Parent Participation; Case Studies; Research Design; Parent Child Relationship; Cultural Capital; Partnerships in Education; Foreign Countries; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Parents; Elementary School Students; Interviews; Home Visits; Elementary School Teachers; Parent Associations; Teacher Associations; United Kingdom (London); South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elternmitwirkung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Forschungsdesign; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Ausland; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Eltern; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Hausbesuch; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Elternvertretung; Lehrerorganisation; Lehrerverband; Lehrervereinigung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The primary aim of the study from which this paper derives was to investigate the level of parental involvement in the schooling of their children. The study employed a descriptive case study research design. All data were based on unstructured interviews with the 30 parents whose children attended one of the primary schools located in the London area of England, United Kingdom. The results of the study showed that parents care about their children's education, and want to get involved. However, results also showed that most parents do not always know how to get involved, and some are even intimidated by the operational structures within the school. The study concludes that to effectively involve parents in the affairs of the school, as well as in their children's education, certain strategies must be popularised within the school. It is recommended that parents be made aware of the strategies for their involvement in children's education if such strategies are to be effective. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Education Association of South Africa. University of Pretoria, Centre for the Study of Resilience, Level 3, Groenkloof Student Centre, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, George Storrar Road and Lleyds Street, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. Tel: +27-12-420-5798; Fax: +27-12-420-5511; Web site: http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za/index.php/saje/index
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Update	2020/1/01