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Álvarez-Álvarez, Carmen – Improving Schools, 2020
The involvement of families in Spanish schools is a legally recognised right, a social demand, an educational need and a permanent challenge. However, there are limited opportunities for families to become engaged with schools in Spain. Their primary avenues for involvement are Parents' Associations ("Asociaciones de Madres y Padres de…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Parent Associations, Public Schools
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García-Carmona, Marina; Evangelou, Maria; Fuentes-Mayorga, Norma – Research Papers in Education, 2020
While research about the significance of parent participation in school is expanding, research about the role of Parent Associations (PA)/Parent and Teacher Associations (PTA) in the integration and participation of immigrant families in schools is limited. This is still the case in Spain and the U.S. despite the continued growth of the immigrant…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Parent Associations
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Paniagua-Rodríguez, Alejandro; Bereményi, Bálint Ábel – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
This article discusses how the call for families' active participation in school can be understood as a form of regulatory act producing neoliberal subjectivities based on responsibility, entrepreneurship and rational calculation. The analysis draws on the results of two projects aiming to improve the relationship between families of Spanish Roma…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Program Implementation, School Restructuring, Neoliberalism