School Governance and Social Inclusion: Involvement of Parents

Tünde Kovacs-Cerović, Vlasta Vizek-Vidović, Steve Powell

2010

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Schools and families share responsibilities for the socialisation and education of the child. The involvement of parents in the life of schools and their participation in school activities and decisionmaking is a major vehicle for constructing shared goals and co-ordinated practices. It is a democratic accountability mechanism to be pursued as a value per se, and can be a strong predictor of the child’s academic achievement.

However, parent participation is an underexplored area in the public education systems of SEE countries. For the purpose of better understanding how and to what extent parents are involved and influential in school life, and to explore the ways in which variations in school-based activities seeking to engage parents reinforce or ameliorate social exclusion, a large-scale study was conducted in ten SEE countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.