School Websites: A Possibility of Cooperation With Parents?

Abstract

A b s t r a c tIn the last fifteen years in Croatia, as well as around the world, much research has been done dealing with the importance of cooperation between parents and school, and the obtained results show its importance for all the parties, and that partnership relation between school and parents produces numerous benefits. Besides customary ways of communication like individual talk and parent meetings, written messages, informal meetings, educational workshops, the involvement of parents in the educational process in the role of accessory etc., the most modern way of communicating with parents is via school websites, teacher's websites, e-mails, and SMS messages. The goal of the research was to examine if Croatian schools' websites had the content which would prompt the parents for frequent visits and enable pupils to acquire new knowledge. A long term goal was to persuade schools to a regular update of new materials which would result in quality cooperation between home and school, and persuade pupils to do research from their home and therefore increase the quality of learning. The research has randomly selected 25 elementary school websites from the county of Istria, and 25 websites from the county Split -Dalmatia. Collected data show that Croatia's elementary school websites are not a model neither for increasing the cooperation with parents nor laying the foundation towards a new culture of learning, and that there is no statistically significant variation in content between the two counties.

Cooperation as a Form of Communication Between Parents and Pre-School Teachers

“…Vecāku iesaistīšana pirmsskolas izglītības iestādes dzīvē pozitīvi ietekmē bērna sasniegumus un motivāciju, kā arī sadarbība starp vecākiem un izglītības iestādi, vecākus padara labāk informētus par izglītības iestādes darbību. Iesaistoties mājas darbu izpildes procesā, vecāki kļūst par mācību procesa dalībniekiem, nevis tikai situācijas novērotājiem (Tavas & Bilač, 2011).…”