Document Type : Review
Abstract
One of the mostimportant matters in child education is parents’ participation in the education and training of their children. This is highly significant because children spend one half of their daily time at home under the surveillance of their parents. The continuance of parent participation into the school can both help the improvement of education and create problems for parents. This study aims at uncovering both the positive and negative consequences of parents’ participation at the primary education level. The methodology used in this research is qualitative, (phenomenological). The statistical population consisted of all elementary pupils’ parents of Tabriz City in the academic year 1391-92. Samples consisted of 16 parents, selected purposively until saturation was reached. The research data were collected using in –depth interviews and were analyzed by applying Smith’s method. The data yielded nine main themes including: Reason for the importance of education; conditions and possibilities; parents’ methods of education; problems encountered; the reasons for those problems from parents’ standpoints; the positive effects on children, of the cooperation; shortcomings in parents participation; parents solutions to the problems; and parents’ suggestions for school efficacy. Parents underwent both positive and negative experiences in the course of participation which impacted their perceptions concerning that participation; curriculum managers, better understanding & parents’ cooperation might play a significant role in reducing negative and enhancing positive aspects of the efficacy of programs and planners’ satisfaction.
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