Perceptions of Some Priority Issues in Education among Rural Parents and Teachers

1986 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan D. Bowd ◽  
Colin R. Boylan
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Parent Participation ◽  
Community Characteristics ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Rural Parents ◽  
Parent Involvement In Education

Eighty-nine teachers and fifty-nine active members of parent organizations associated with the teachers' schools were surveyed regarding their perceptions of significant issues in education. Issues were rated as high, medium or low priority and then rank-ordered separately for parents and teachers. Overall ranking for the two groups differed significantly. Ratings of issues bearing upon parent involvement in education and employment opportunities for students were more highly rated by parents than teachers. When ratings of most curriculum-related issues were compared for the two groups they were not found to differ significantly. The results were interpreted to reflect broad social role differences between parents and teachers as well as local community characteristics. Some implications for fostering parent participation in curriculum development were outlined.

Parent Involvement in Education: What Local Groups Can Achieve

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-27
Author(s):  
R. McCaskill
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Consultative Committee ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Parent Involvement In Education

The following is a brief account of the achievements of the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Consultative Committee (QATSICC) in Innisfail.

PARENT INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION AS A MODERATOR OF FAMILY AND NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT ON SCHOOL READINESS AMONG YOUNG CHILDREN

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Kingston ◽  
Keng Yen Huang ◽  
Esther Calzada ◽  
Spring Dawson-McClure ◽  
Laurie Brotman
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Young Children ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Socioeconomic Context ◽  
Parent Involvement In Education

scholarly journals Parent involvement in education? A Foucauldian discourse analysis of school newsletters

2021 ◽  
pp. 175774382110116
Author(s):  
Shauna Kingston
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
School Partnerships ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Children's Schooling ◽  
Push Out ◽  
Parent Involvement In Education

The Ontario Ministry of Education ( 2010 ) puts forth parent involvement as a solution for underachievement and as a resource for building better schools. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of school newsletters reveals that efforts to engage parents also function as a neoliberal strategy designed to govern parents. Using Foucault’s theory of governmentality, I show how the newsletters compel parents to invest in their children’s schooling and judge their value as parents in relation to their ability to produce good neoliberal citizens. I discuss how the newsletters depict ‘good’ parents as those who: (1) do not offer input into schooling; (2) make education a parenting priority and (3) raise good neoliberal citizens. The newsletters represent a strategy for cultivating neoliberal parents who do not ask more from schools and instead demand more of themselves in terms of preparing their children for school and for life. Problems with this approach are that: it asks parents to take up their children’s schooling in ways that push out other family priorities and it shuts down potential collaborations between parents and schools that could challenge neoliberal subjecthood. I call for reformulating discourses of ‘good’ involvement in ways that allow for more equal parent–school partnerships.

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