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A Relacao Escola-Familia - Um Modelo De Trocas E Colaboracao, Eliana Bhering, Iram Siraj-Blatchford

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This study uses data from 21 fourth grade parents in 8 Brazilian state pre- and primary schools in Belo Horizonte - MG, Brazil, to examine their views about parental involvement and others issues related to their children's school education. The data has been collected through using Epstein's typology (in Brandt, 1989). This typology has already been validated in the past and it was created to summarise many of the kinds of parental involvement practices that any level of school education - from nursery years to secondary level - may develop. A different pattern of the parents and the schools relationship …