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“Collaboration with parents isn’t a burden. It’s just a natural part of my work.” - Parental Involvement in Switzerland – An Analysis of Attitudes and Practices of Swiss Primary School Teachers

Egger, Jan; Lehmann, Jürgen; Straumann, Martin (2015). “Collaboration with parents isn’t a burden. It’s just a natural part of my work.” - Parental Involvement in Switzerland – An Analysis of Attitudes and Practices of Swiss Primary School Teachers. International Journal about Parents in Education, 9 (1), pp. 119-130.

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The relationship between school and parental home is normatively charged and has increasingly become the focal point of pedagocial professional discourse in the past years. The article reports the results of the project “Home-School Cooperation“, which was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The qualitative study examines, how teachers and principals shape their interaction with parents. The data was collected in 10 primary schools in two Swiss Cantons. 39 non-standardized interviews led with teachers and headmasters were transcribed for case reconstructions They were analysed using sequence analysis according to the method of objective hermeneutics (Oevermann, 2000, 2002a) and interpreted in the tradition of the „Deutungsmusteranalyse“ (analyses of patterns of interpretation) (Dewe, 1984). We refer to Oevermann’s theory of professionalization (Oevermann, 1996, 2002b). As a result, we can conclude that cooperation differs as follows: active vs. passive focus on action ; dominant client focus ; the way the schools’ interests are enforced on parents. Seven super-individually identifiable interaction patterns can be reconstructed. These interaction patterns are marked by three different interpretations teachers have on school – family relationship.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

PHBern Contributor:

Egger, Jan

ISSN:

1973 - 3518

Language:

English

Submitter:

Jessica Brunner

Date Deposited:

07 Nov 2022 11:36

Last Modified:

09 Mar 2023 15:55

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Kooperation Schule und Familie, home, school cooperation, practice of teachers, attitudes of teachers in primary schools

PHBern DOI:

10.57694/927

URI:

https://phrepo.phbern.ch/id/eprint/927

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