Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Education
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Module Offerings
6205EDSTUD-SEP-CTY
Aims
To provide students with an understanding of the benefits and challenges of parental involvement in their children’s education and home-school relationships.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Analysis theories and models of parental involvement to the issue of home-school relationships
2.
Critically explore parental involvement in children’s education
3.
Debate barriers to effective parental involvement
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Definitions of parents
Theories and models of parental involvement and home-school relationships
Benefits and challenges of parental involvement
Policy concerning parental involvement and home-school relationships: historical and current
Barriers to effective home-school relationships; the impact of social class, gender (where are the Dads?), ethnicity and special educational needs
Strategies for improving parental involvement and home-school relationships: in the classroom and beyond
Parents as…consumers, clients, partners or experts?
‘Problem’ parents and moral panic: intervention from the state
‘Going the extra mile’: teachers compensating for ‘ineffective’ parenting
Ideas of the ‘good’ parent and ‘good’ practitioner within the context of home-school relations
Parents as educators: home-education
Definitions of parents
Theories and models of parental involvement and home-school relationships
Benefits and challenges of parental involvement
Policy concerning parental involvement and home-school relationships: historical and current
Barriers to effective home-school relationships; the impact of social class, gender (where are the Dads?), ethnicity and special educational needs
Strategies for improving parental involvement and home-school relationships: in the classroom and beyond
Parents as…consumers, clients, partners or experts?
‘Problem’ parents and moral panic: intervention from the state
‘Going the extra mile’: teachers compensating for ‘ineffective’ parenting
Ideas of the ‘good’ parent and ‘good’ practitioner within the context of home-school relations
Parents as educators: home-education
Module Overview:
This module introduces you to the crucial importance of working effectively with parents, and potential barriers to effective parent-practitioner relationships according to social class, gender, ethnicity and special educational needs. The module will enable you to develop a conceptual understanding of key developments relating to home-school collaboration, and how to develop the engagement of parents that you meet as future practitioners. The module will also consider controversy surrounding 'problem' parents and intervention from the state, as well as relevant strategies (used in the classroom and beyond) which may develop parental involvement and home-school collaboration.
This module introduces you to the crucial importance of working effectively with parents, and potential barriers to effective parent-practitioner relationships according to social class, gender, ethnicity and special educational needs. The module will enable you to develop a conceptual understanding of key developments relating to home-school collaboration, and how to develop the engagement of parents that you meet as future practitioners. The module will also consider controversy surrounding 'problem' parents and intervention from the state, as well as relevant strategies (used in the classroom and beyond) which may develop parental involvement and home-school collaboration.
Additional Information:
Students will benefit from this introduction to the crucial importance of working effectively with parents, and potential barriers to effective parent-practitioner relationships according to social class, gender, ethnicity and special educational needs. The module will enable students to develop a conceptual understanding of key developments relating to home-school collaboration, and how to develop the engagement of parents that they come into contact with as future practitioners. The module will also consider controversy surrounding ‘problem’ parents and intervention from the state, as well as relevant strategies (used in the classroom and beyond) which may develop parental involvement and home-school collaboration.
Students will benefit from this introduction to the crucial importance of working effectively with parents, and potential barriers to effective parent-practitioner relationships according to social class, gender, ethnicity and special educational needs. The module will enable students to develop a conceptual understanding of key developments relating to home-school collaboration, and how to develop the engagement of parents that they come into contact with as future practitioners. The module will also consider controversy surrounding ‘problem’ parents and intervention from the state, as well as relevant strategies (used in the classroom and beyond) which may develop parental involvement and home-school collaboration.