ISSN:
1745-7823
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Ethnography and education
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 10, No. 2 (2015), p. 170-184
DDC:
370
Abstract:
The present study explores a local initiative to develop parent support services through the school system. In focus are the discourse on home-school relations and parent support and the interplay between discourse and practical occurrences. Official documents, interviews and notes from municipal meetings and informal conversations were obtained from a local authority during 2009-2013. The results show that the education system is discursively positioned as an important player for the administration and organisation of parent support. All the same, opposing arguments are given precedence in decisions concerning what home-school relations should entail. The study explicates that parent support, when connected to compulsory education, is preferably conceptualised as part of and contingent on the forms and characteristics of home-school relations. Furthermore, it makes evident that the term school is recurrently used as a synonym of teachers. This has implications for both home-school relations and parent support.
Note:
Copyright: © 2014 Taylor & Francis 2014
DOI:
10.1080/17457823.2014.985240
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17457823.2014.985240
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1663917343
URL:
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-28553
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