Family-School Partnership Childhood, Society & Social Cohesion

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Final task

Analysis of the existing practice, policy and theory of family kindergarten partnership in Polish ECEC (written and oral presentation)

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the theoretical starting points for establishing partnership relations between schools and families, and to help them acquire the knowledge and techniques necessary to establish successful interaction, communication and collaborative relationships with parents and other adults in educational institutions.

A special focus will be on paradigms of the relationship between families and educational institutions, movements and programs that influenced the contemporary understanding of cooperation with parents (compensation programs, alternative movements.)

Expected learning outcomes

1. To define and explain the underlying concepts that appear in co-operation between families and schools.

2. To compare and explain different paradigms of co-operation with parents that have emerged over the past decades.

3. To find out and determine the reasons for family-school collaboration

4. To understand the possible reasons for disagreement between families and schools, i.e. parents and educators.

Literature

Deslandes, R. (2001). A vision of home-school partnership: three complementary conceptual frameworks. In F. Smith, K. Van der Wolf & P. Sleegers (Eds.), A bridge to the future: Collaboration between parents, schools and communities (pp. 11-23). ITS

Dusi, P. (2012). The Family - School Relationship in Europe: A Research Review. C.E.P.S., 2(1), 13 - 33.

Epstein, J. L. (2001). School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools. Westview Press.

Hornby, G. (2011). Parental Involvement in Childhood Education: Building Effective School Family Partnerships. Springer.

Višnjić Jevtić, A. (2021). Collaborative relationships between preschool teachers and parents as prerequisite for development of culture of communities of upbringing. U: A. Višnjić Jevtić, I. Visković (ur.), Challenges of Collaboration: Development of teachers' professional competences for collaboration and partnership with parents (str. 77 – 112). Alfa.

Visković, I., & Višnjić Jevtić, A. (2017.). Development of professional teacher competences for cooperation with parents. Early Child Development and Care, 187(10), 1569-1582. DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2017.1299145

Visković, I., Višnjić Jevtić, A. (2017.). Teachers’ Opinion on the Possibilities of Collaboration with Parents. Croatian Journal of Education, 19(1), 117-146.