Home-School Relations and Inequality in Education [microform] / Derek Toomey
- Bib ID:
- 5466878
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Toomey, Derek
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
- 43 p.
- Summary:
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This paper examines government policies in Australia which encourage parent participation in disadvantaged schools in order to improve student literacy, and studies that have found that this policy may, in fact, increase inequality in education. The argument presented is that there are two types of parents--enthusiastic parents and those described as the silent majority. The first group will participate readily in a volunteer effort to assist their children by supportive activities at home and visits to the school to receive information and advice as well as participating in the school as volunteers. The second group may need more encouragement to visit the schools to receive the advice and assistance that would be helpful to their children and, as they do not receive this encouragement, are percieved negatively by the teachers. The following are some of the empirical findings supporting this theory: (1) Home visit programs were found more successful in involving parents than were programs where parents had to go to school; (2) parents having a high level of contact with the school were rated more positively by teachers with regard to their interest in furthering their children's education but independent ratings by interviewers found less disparity; (3) high contact parents were more likely to be Anglo-Australian, and more likely to apply advice obtained from the schools; (4) the contact level of the parents correlated positively with predictions about the children's reading competence scores; and (5) the differences found did not correspond to social class but rather to differences in family environment. Four pages of references are provided. (CG)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at a Conference on Education and the Family (Provo, Utah, February 4-6, 1986).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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