The role of parents in the restoration of the culture of teaching and learning

Abstract

The researcher would like to investigate the role played by parents in the restoration of the culture of learning and teaching. Parental involvement is the co-responsibility that the parent must bear in the management, performance and support of the fundamental issues of their children. Fundamental issues of education embrace the functional (teaching) and the management and supportive tasks that the parents may be involved in, for example cooperation, participation and partnership.

Parents have a vital role to play with regard to influence on the quality of restoring the culture of teaching and learning. Without cooperation between parents and educators, a child cannot be properly educated. The parent and the educator each play a special and crucial role in the education of the child. The successful education restoration of the culture of teaching and learning depends entirely on cooperation, communication and understanding between educators and parents. Educators must be able to communicate with all parents and be able to include them in school based and home based activities. This, however, requires a shift away from the traditional view of parental involvement, which revolves around co-opting parents to assist with general school activities such as fundraising. Effective parental involvement, however also needs to be managed, it cannot be left to chance. The researcher claims that the role of parents in the restoration of the culture of teaching and learning will lead to the improvement of learners in their academic achievement. The method to be used is qualitative; data will be collected through interviews and questionnaires. Major steps in conducting interviews will involve direct interaction between individuals. After thorough researching the researcher has realized the following:

• Parents do not feel part of their children’s education and they tend to leave everything on the hands of the educators. • Educators tend to ignore parents. • The culture of teaching and learning can be improved by actively involving parents in their children’s education. • The culture of effective teaching and learning will only be restored when parents are totally involved in the operation of the school. Parents must be fully integrated into the organization. It must be noted that those parents’ responses are the base line criterion in every decision making process and those parents are physically incorporated into activities. It is better to involve parents at the outset than to decide, consult and then have to change.