A Study on Strengthening School-Parent Collaboration

Abstract

The aim of this review is to describe the situation as a result of the statements of administrators/administrators, teachers and parents in terms of strengthening school-family cooperation and to provide analytical suggestions for strengthening school-family cooperation. The Qualitative research method was preferred in the study; the Interview technique was used to collect data. The study was conducted with the administrators/administrators, teachers and parents working in primary schools in Şanlıurfa province Haliliye district Süleymaniye District in the 2020-2021 academic year.

In this study, the views of administrators/administrators and teachers on school-family cooperation were analyzed by content analysis. In the interviews with the administrators/administrators, teachers and parents, it was determined that there were many common ideas about the identification of problems and solution proposals for these problems, but the stakeholders did not act in order to become functional and therefore the problems continued. According to the results of the research; For the development of school-family cooperation, the expectations of school administrators and teachers from parents, their responsibilities and, moreover, the ideas that their roles cannot be fulfilled in the subjects that they have rights have emerged, and the discourses of administrators and teachers show parallelism. In terms of strengthening the school-family cooperation, a number of problems have been identified, including the communication problem of parents with school administrators and teachers, economic reasons, negative attitudes towards school and some common discourses arising from educational status.