Special Educators and Their Cooperation with the School Management in Theory and Practice?

Abstract

A special educator can participate in all the activities of the school counselling service and is most effective in those related to the organisation of the lives of children with special needs. The authors monitored the cooperation between special educators and school management, as part of a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews, in the context of which the special educator’s tasks are defined in the Programme Guidelines for Primary School Counselling Service (2008), as well as how they cooperate with school management in terms of how many other tasks they perform together. The authors found that special educators enjoy the trust of management. The results revealed the operation areas of the school counselling service wherein cooperation between the special educator and school management was evident.The results of the study suggest the basis for further scientific research on the cooperation between school management and the school counselling service.