Talking about a specific child's development and current issues is an organisationally integral part of the partnership between parents/families and educational institutions with respect to children's upbringing and education. In Germany, the programmatic emphasis on the equality of all participants in annual formal meetings of parents and…

This paper addresses parental trust in schools (hereafter referred to as "parent trust") in relation to different situations of school-based involvement. More precisely, the study seeks to examine how selected situations of parental school-based involvement (parent-teacher conferences and parents' evenings) are relevant to trust, and…