Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences

Yazarlar: Mavis Maria Raborife, Nareadi Phasha

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Barriers,School-family collaboration,Informal settlement,South Africa.  

Özet: As the shift towards inclusive education intensifies, the need for school to work collaboratively with families becomes necessary for the sake of maximizing students’ academic success.  However, in certain communities such effort is often undermined by various factors which interact directly and/or indirectly with both institutions – school and family.  Schools located in informal settlements of South Africa are not unique to this situation. This paper presents the perspectives of parents, educators and school management teams about barriers which inhibit collaboration between the school and families. Interviews conducted in groups and with individual participants were followed as data collection strategies.  Findings revealed factors falling under three categories, namely: community, schools and family factors.  These factors interact with each other in a dynamic way to create challenges to undermine school-family collaboration. The findings of this study could guide school efforts for promoting meaningful and long-lasting relationships with families.  

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