Enhancing home–school collaboration through children's expression

Yuen, Lai Ha Freda 阮麗霞

doi:10.1080/1350293x.2011.548963

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“…Student-centred visual tools such as photo taking, illustrations and diary keeping have been used in the past to strengthen collaboration between the school and home. They also allow for greater insight for both parents and teachers into child needs (Yuen, 2011), and provide age-centred understandings of the home environment that may not be captured through interviews alone (Jorgenson and Sullivan, 2010). However, previous research into the impact of school behaviours on the home is primarily parent-based (Gadhoke et al, 2015; Rausch et al, 2015) and researchers recognise the challenges in exploring this relationship (Baranowski et al, 2000; Lytle et al, 2006; Reynolds et al, 2000).…”

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Student-centred photovoice as a mechanism for home-school interaction: Teacher perceptions of efficacy

McKernan

Gleddie

Storey

2019

Health Education Journal

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Objective: The school and home environments play a significant role in shaping the health behaviours of children. Understanding students’ home environments is essential for teachers to recognise and meet their students’ needs, while collaborative partnerships between the school and home have been shown to result in academic success and improved behaviour management. This study explores the unique features of photovoice as a student-centred approach to understanding the links between the school and home environments, and its feasibility to be implemented independently by teachers in the classroom. Design: Descriptive qualitative method. Setting: A Project Promoting healthy Living for Everyone in Schools (APPLE Schools) is a school-based health promotion project being conducted in 70 school communities across northern Alberta, Northwest Territories, and Manitoba, Canada. Method: One-on-one interviews with teachers who were involved in an initial photovoice project ( n = 3) and researcher field notes from observations conducted over a period of 8 months were used. Data were analysed using latent content analysis. Results: Strengths, limitations and future directions of photovoice were identified. The strengths of using photovoice included genuine student participation, strengthened communication between the school and home, and the ability to address multiple learning domains. Limitations were cost, privacy and parental support. Teachers shared promising ideas about photovoice being used for health promotion advocacy. Conclusion: Photovoice can be used by teachers as tool to strengthen the relationship between the home and the school environments. Future use of photovoice in schools is encouraged.

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Student-centred photovoice as a mechanism for home-school interaction: Teacher perceptions of efficacy

McKernan

Gleddie

Storey

2019

Health Education Journal

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“…Best practice across early childhood education calls for collaboratively working with parents (Hirsto, 2010;Slazar, 2012;Yuen, 2011). Teachers in infant/toddler classrooms often have more daily contact with parents than do the teachers of older children.…”

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Are We Experts?: Perspectives of Korean Teachers on their Careers in Infant and Toddler Care

Park

Wee

Yang

2014

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

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THE PRESENT STUDY INVESTIGATES how Korean infant/toddler teachers define their role in centre-based childcare settings and how their attitudes and perspectives influence their professional identities and relationships with parents. The study utilised the interpretive science paradigm and individual interviews for data collection, and the qualitative data analysis method explored the experiences of 19 infant/ toddler teachers. Participants defined their role as 'teacher as mother' and placed more emphasis on nurturing than educating despite their acknowledgement of the importance of the educational aspects of centre-based care. The consensus among infant/toddler teachers that it is best for mothers to care for children at home derives from 1) teachers' consideration of infants/toddlers' developmental characteristics, and 2) the limitations of centre-based programs to fulfill the developmental needs of infants and toddlers. This perspective affects their sense of professionalism and job satisfaction and can lower the quality of overall infant and toddler care.

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“…Experts on home-school collaborations echo these benefits. For example, Yuen (2011) describes the ways in which increased parent-child communication about school increased parent knowledge about and comfort with the school program, which in turn increased the likelihood that parents would take a more active role in the classroom. Souto-Manning and Swickl (2006) propose additional ways in which effective communication benefits parents, including highlighting family and child strengths, including all parents, and enabling families to feel like partners in the education process.…”

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Partnering with Families Through Photo Collages

Bacigalupa

2015

Early Childhood Educ J

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This article describes the implementation and benefits of a photo-based family communication method called Daily Explorations. Daily Explorations are one-to two-page photo collages that are annotated with meaningful explanations of children's play and e-mailed to parents every day. The process, described in more detail in this article, is a relatively simple way to help families gain a deeper understanding of not only what their children do every day, but also why these activities are important. Results of a parent survey indicate that families receive many benefits from these photo communications including: increased knowledge of child development, increased understanding of how children learn through play, increased parent/child communication about school activities, and increased family understanding of the program and activities.

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Enhancing home–school collaboration through children's expression

Abstract: para comunicar a sus padres lo que necesitaban y de qué forma ellos podrían ayudarlos. El objetivo del articulo es estudiar como los padres y los maestros evaluaron el proyecto; y de qué forma concebían la colaboración escuela-hogar y el aprendizaje de los niños.

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

Student-centred photovoice as a mechanism for home-school interaction: Teacher perceptions of efficacy

Student-centred photovoice as a mechanism for home-school interaction: Teacher perceptions of efficacy

Are We Experts?: Perspectives of Korean Teachers on their Careers in Infant and Toddler Care

Partnering with Families Through Photo Collages

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