Understanding parental participation components in elementary school curriculum.

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Ghahraman Madadlou ¹
• Zohreh Saadatmand ²
• Mohammad Hossain Yarmohammadiyan ³

¹ Education,farhanghiyan Uni,West Azarbayjan,Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, Isfahan, Iran

³ Professor, Research Center for Management and Economics of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

This paper aimed at identifying the parental participation components in implementing elementary school curriculums from the perspective of the curriculum planning experts of the elementary textbook compilation organization and the professors of curriculum. The Delphi method was used to perform this research according to its subject and nature. Snowball sampling method was used in qualitative section and its size was according to the saturation principle, which was saturated in the 14th person. An unstructured questionnaire was used to collect data in the qualitative section and a structured questionnaire was used in the quantitative part. To determine its validity in the qualitative section, recommendations and training were provided to the members of the Delphi group before responding and Cronbach’s alpha was used in the quantitative section. For validity of the questionnaire, the professors were used as referee to determine the validity of the questions that were distributed among the group members after their approval. To analyze the data in the qualitative section of the questionnaire, the ranking method and the third quartet were used as agreement criterion and the Kendal coordination coefficient was used to determine the agreement among experts' opinions in the quantitative part, according to the results of the findings regarding parenting practices in implementation of elementary school curriculums are as follows: helping to reduce anxiety and mental tensions, financial assistance for programs, participation through teaching and learning opportunities, parent participation as a teacher and his successor, participation in the implementation of practical methods, facilitating teaching and learning process, emotional and social support in implementing curriculum projects and helping in performing teaching methods according to recognition of local and natural facilities and facilitating lesson study processes. Based on the results, it can be said that the experts have confirmed and selected the following components with more agreement: participation in implementation, financial assistance in implementation of programs and participation in creating learning and learning opportunities.

Keywords

• "participation
• curriculum
• parents
• method
• primary school"

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