School context: A shared space between family and school

• Autor(a) principal: Diambo, Fortunato T.
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Branco, Maria Luísa
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/7376
• topic: Family-School Relationship; Participation; Parents; Angola

The establishment of a healthy relationship between family and school has been pointed out as a crucial factor in the harmonious development of the educational process and academic success. This relation has been characterized by a mutual blame between school agents and students’ families and it is far from ideal, especially in the context of many African countries. On one hand, the school blames parents for not being sufficiently educated to participate in the life and school activities of students and on the other hand, parents blame the school for not being prepared to insert the family in the school environment. Our guiding question in this presentation, produced in the context of a PhD thesis focusing on the relationship between school and family in Angola is: What can be done to enhance the sharing of ideas between family and school? Our main purpose is to diffuse and enhance the benefits of sharing ideas between school and family, in order to minimize the gap between those two important social institutions for education in citizenship and to allow the school to be progressively more participative, especially in developing countries such as Angola. Based on a non-systematic review of the literature, we present the current state of knowledge concerning the relationship between school and family and how to incorporate family into the school environment, including the perceptions of parents, school workers and teachers about this important relationship and the role of the class director, focusing on the present situation in Angola.