Starting school is a significant turn-point in the life of every child, especially so for children with speech-linguistic impairments (SLI) and their parents. The cooperation between the parents and the teacher heavily influences school attainments of such children. This, of…

The role of parents within special education teacher preparation programs has been widely recognized. Traditional approaches for preparing special educators to interact with parents of children with special needs have been mainly classroom based promoting a narrow view of the…

 
This paper is about parental associations and their impact on educational developments regarding the education of disabled children in Cyprus.  It mainly comments upon parents’ conceptualisations of disabled children’s rights which guided their responses to education politics.  The historical…

In the past decades, mobile communication has been one of the fastest growing businesses in the world. In Italy, like in others European countries, there are more mobile phones than inhabitants. Everyone is able to use a mobile phone (contrary…

This paper focuses on some conceptual and methodological problems inherent in many empirical studies on parental involvement.  On the basis of twelve selected studies in which quantitative measures for parent involvement have been used, we discuss the reasons for the…

In this paper a review is provided of literature on early literacy programs with an emphasis on the role of parents in supporting their child’s early literacy development. Many early literacy programs emphasize the role of parents in supporting their…

The object of the study is the Rom/gypsy/ camp in Palermo, Sicily, in the south of Italy, where three groups of so-called “gypsies” or “travellers” live together; they originally came from the Balkans and have been settled in this zone…

Why home and kindergarten, these meaningful places, are such different worlds? Why are there different meanings attached to meaningful places? And why do two places have absolutely different meaning to a six-year old child? What does the social process in…

This research focuses on parental involvement in their children’s education in a Mexican rural community. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of social and cultural reproduction, the key concepts under investigation were field, habitus, social, cultural and symbolic capital. From an ethnographic…

There is a general consensus among contemporary social scientists that social trust is important(Alexander, 2003; Coleman, 1990; Delhey & Newton, 2003; Huang, 2003; Putnam, 1993). In thecontext of education, trust was seen as a goal and a tool for school…