The aim of this article is to examine the partnership among home, school and community from a micro-sociological point of view deepening the concept of parental involvement in school life from the stakeholder standpoint. Qualitative approach has been adopted. Secondary-source…

This paper analyses home-school-community links from three different standpoints: education policies, schools and families. The paper provides empirical evidence on how education policies, schools and families operate in the Mexican context. Evidence from this study suggests that the interrelationship between…

This article presents findings from an investigation in southern Norway that sought to provide insight into diverse forms of collaboration on behalf of children with severe disabilities in preschool. The use of individual plans (IP) for preschool-age children is relatively…

Parents have incessant interest in the education of their children. But, what makes some parents different is their ability to go beyond implicit and conventional norms of parental responsibility for the well being of their children. Parental involvement is…

The purpose of the present study was to test the direction of effect in the relationship between parents’ sources of knowledge (parental monitoring and child disclosure) and adolescents’ delinquency. The participants were 157 8th and 9th grade students and their…

This article explores the use of gender and diversity in research on home and school relationships. The review is based on articles that were accessed through databases like Web of Science, Academic Search Elite and SCIRIUS. The articles were analyzed…

This paper raises and discusses a series of key issues that arose during a 20-month evaluation project concerning the impact of family literacy programmes on the skills of parents and their children. Using a range of mixed methods, the research…

This article examines the Individual Educational Plan forms (hereafter IEP forms) used in planning for a child’s early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finnish day care from the perspectives of social constructionism and discourse analysis. The National Curriculum Guidelines…

Using a qualitative methodology, this study investigated the extent to which immigrant school-age children have adapted to their new “home” in Quebec, particularly in terms of development of healthy lifestyles and life skills and how their families, schools and other…

The aim of this qualitative study is to gain in-depth understanding of teachers' views and attitudes toward parental involvement in school. Twenty seven Israeli elementary-school and secondary-school teachers were interviewed and asked to define parental involvement, their feelings toward it,…