| Título: | Parent management’ or ‘Take care out there!’ |
| Autores: | Hanne Knudsen; The Danish University of Education, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Fecha: | 2008-02-01 |
| Publicador: | International journal about parents in education |
| Fuente: |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
| Tema: | No aplica |
| Descripción: | This paper is based on a morning session at a pedagogical training course for a group of teachers at a small Danish public school. Using role-play, these teachers, under the guidance of a consultant and an actor, were practicing ‘the difficult conversation’ with parents. I had been given permission to be present and to videotape the morning’s role-play.1 In this paper I inquire into the underlying assumptions behind such training in conversational skills. What is the purpose of this ‘difficult conversation’? Who possesses relevant knowledge that can be used as input in the conversation? What can teachers and parents say given these assumptions? Which management responsibility is addressed through such training of the difficult conversation? My conclusions are, briefly, that the difficult conversation is more correctly to be called an impossible conversation. It is an asking for the parent’s consent to the teachers’ description, and the teachers’ authority is very easily threatened by parents who suppose that their experiences are relevant. The training situation in itself confirms that the parents are the opponents, and that the teachers should take care.The training course had been developed by the school’s Coordination and Development group, which consists of the headmaster, coordinators and union representative. As a basis for the discussion, the Coordination and Development Group had defined five types of difficult parents and had written them on a flip chart. The headmaster referred to them as “types that we all know”:- The extremely well prepared mother2- The egotistical mother- The mother who says yes but does not follow it up, is evasive- The angry/aggressive mother who seeks to place blame- The disagreeing parentsOne of the first things I asked myself – and a few of the teachers present – was how an extremely well prepared mother can be ‘difficult’? |
| Idioma: | No aplica |
1 What does education mean for us and how do we get involved? Parents’ accounts in a Mexican rural community. por Maria Cristina Azaola; University of Bristol, Bristol, UK | 6 Types of parents and school strategies aimed at the creation of effective partnerships. por Friederik Smit; Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands,Geert Driessen; Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands,Roderick Sluiter; Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands,Peter Sleegers; Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands |
2 Building trust in elementary schools: the impact of home school community collaboration. por Esther Ho Sui Chu | 7 Teachers’ and community stakeholders’ perceptions about school – community relations in Cyprus. por George Anaxagorou; Cyprus College, Nicosia,Cyprus |
3 Crossing home – school border as rites de passage. por Maria Mendel | 8 Parental involvement: beyond demographics. por Stelios N. Georgiou; University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus |
4 Assessing parents’ satisfaction with their parental role for a more effective partnerships between families and schools. por Raquel-Amaya Martinez-Gonzalez; University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain,Beatriz Rodríguez-Ruiz; University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain | 9 Promoting closer ties and cooperation between the school, the family and the community in the framework of intercultural education. por Pavlina Hadjitheodoulou-Loizidou; Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Latsia, Cyprus,Loizos Symeou; Department of Education Sciences, European University, Cyprus |
5 Challenging parents, teacher occupational stress and health in Dutch primary schools. por Bette Prakke; University of Professional Education, Utrecht, The Netherlands,Arie Van Peet; University of Professional Education, Utrecht, The Netherlands,Kees Van der Wolf; Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 10 School, family and the community in cooperation: the model of syneducation. por Iro Mylonakou; University of Athens, Athens, Greece,Ioannis Kekes; University of Athens, Athens, Greece |