Review by Dragica Pavlović Babić
Parents and School -Partners or Casual Acquaintances?Are parents active partners in the educational process? Do they participate in daily school life? Are they asked to make decisions that determine the quality of education and the quality of educational outcomes? As a parent or as a person involved in education in any of SEE countries, you could probably guess the answers to these questions, and it is likely that you have a strong sense of their importance. The monograph "Parent Participation in the Life of Schools in South East Europe, " recently published by the Centre for Educational Policy, reports systematic findings of a three-year research project conducted in ten SEE countries: Albania,
The aim of this paper is to present a viable, psychologically based framework designed for systematical promotion of the adolescents’ capacities for collaborative problem solving and possibilities for their cultivation through everyday school practice. Specifically, a model for designing teacher-training programs is proposed, wherein several elements of effective collaborative problem solving are drawn together
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