The Construction of Parents and Teachers as Agents for the Improvement of Municipal Schools in Chile

Autor/inn/en	Montecinos, Carmen; Sisto, Vicente; Ahumada, Luis
Titel	The Construction of Parents and Teachers as Agents for the Improvement of Municipal Schools in Chile
Quelle	In: Comparative Education, 46 (2010) 4, S.487-508 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
Schlagwörter	Educational Quality; Quality Control; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Social Capital; Educational Policy; Leadership; Educational Improvement; Correlation; Disadvantaged Schools; Teacher Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; Trust (Psychology); Parent School Relationship; Change Agents; Parent Participation; Chile + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätskontrolle; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Sozialkapital; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Führung; Führungsposition; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Korrelation; Lehrerverhalten; Elternverhalten; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Elternmitwirkung
Abstract	This article examines how teachers and parents in 10 municipal schools serving students growing up under conditions of social vulnerability represented themselves, and others, as valid agents for charting school improvement. In four schools parents and teachers saw each other as trustworthy and collaborating to provide an education that could transform students' life chances. In the other six schools, social relations were marked by distrust, staff constructed students as lacking the resources necessary to benefit from a rigorous academic programme, and parents in leadership positions shared with teachers the belief that school failure could largely be attributed to uncommitted parents. These results suggest that the impact of quality assurance policies tends to be associated with the social capital of municipal schools, thus educational policy needs to consider developing and strengthening social capital within schools. (Contains 1 table and 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10