Autistic children often require support in various competencies during early childhood. Parents and practitioners must collaborate for optimal child outcomes. Previous research indicates that parent-mediated learning supports children's social communication, encourages parent-practitioner collaboration, and fosters parental feelings of support.…

This dissertation delves into the crucial realm of teacher-parent communication, recognizing its pivotal role in establishing a foundation of trust with families. This study employs a qualitative approach to emphasize the bidirectional and continuous nature of effective communication. It adopts a case study methodology, focusing on ten early…

Teaching of self-care skills with the participation of families at home, which is the natural environment of the child, contributes to effective and permanent results. Even though it is preferred that the family take an active part in teaching, most parents who plan to work with their children have difficulties in how they teach. The previous…

This article uses selected findings from a small-scale research project entitled 'Exploring early childhood practitioners' perceptions of empathic interactions with children and families'. The project used an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) methodology to explore data from a small number of early childhood practitioners working in…

Denmark and Sweden have witnessed a historically significant amplification of parental influence in compulsory schools during the past two decades. The emphasis on parental involvement in these two countries reflects international trends of neoliberal governing of educational processes. We know very little about the interplay between beginning…

Family-professional partnerships are linked to student success, yet little research has explored the nuances of such partnerships with refugee families new to the U.S. school system. To explore this phenomenon, we conducted an embedded case study through which we qualitatively examined the family-professional partnerships between 10 newly…

Adversarial relationships between parents of students with disabilities and school professionals can be avoided. Conflict between parents and teachers weakens relationships and prevents communication that can be collaborative and mutually beneficial. Factors at the heart of these conflicts are a lack of trust and poor communication. The importance…

The research literature has shown that teachers' beliefs and attitudes towards parental engagement have an influence on sustaining parents' balanced involvement in education. This current study aims to raise awareness of the issue within the Greek primary English Language Teaching context and provides suggestions on how balanced and effective…

During the last decade, provision of education has become a primary indicator for Sustainable Development as the key agenda under the United Nations SDGs. The essence of this goal is to enable upward socio-economic mobility and is a key to alleviate poverty, provide free primary and secondary education, access to technical and higher education,…

Communication is one of the key components of family-school collaboration. In addition to the common benefits seen with family-school collaboration (increased attendance, increased academic performance, decrease of problem behaviors), communication allows for information about a student's growth and development to be shared between the home and…

This study aimed at exploring kindergarten teachers' perceptions and usage of digital devices in their classrooms. A multiple case study (n = 4) was conducted to investigate how in-service experienced (n = 22) and novice (n = 24) kindergarten teachers interpreted the functional significance of digital devices, including the needs and challenges…

This study examined the nature of partnerships that exist between parents and teachers, the attributes that influence these partnerships, and the strategies that can enhance the partnerships between parents and teachers in two schools for the deaf in the Central Region of Ghana. We conducted focus group discussions with 12 teachers and had…

Transition to school research has largely overlooked parents' experiences, particularly fathers. Addressing this gap, we gathered speech samples from UK parents (93 mothers, Mean age = 37.1 years; SD = 4.6 years; and 70 fathers, Mean age = 38.0 years; SD = 3.59 years) that captured their experiences of the school transition. This study (a)…

Students' perceptions of teaching quality and teachers' interaction with their families, along with student self-efficacy and interest in a subject matter to performance. However, little is known about how student perceptions of teaching quality and teacher-family interactions in the subject of English relate to performance in reading…

Negative school climates may contribute to K-6 general education teachers' decisions to leave their jobs, thus perpetuating the current teacher shortage. Utilizing Hobfoll's conservation of resource (COR) theory as the theoretical framework, I implemented a generic qualitative methodology and purposively sampled 12 general education teachers in…