Exploring Possibilities of Engaging Parents in an Early Childhood Classroom in City Naudero District Larkana
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Parents’ engagement plays a vital role in getting information regarding children's education and their progress. This role is not played by each parent but those who play it remain aware of their children's progress and it also helps school administrations in contacting students’ parents easily and in sharing their concerns regarding children and school work. The present paper reports the findings of a researcher study that aims to analyse the current practices of parental engagement as well opportunities and challenges provided and faced by teachers and parents. For detail analysis, a qualitative approach was used with the help of semi-structured interviews which were taken from teachers and the parents. Three parents and three teachers were selected as participants with the help of a purposive sampling technique. Detailed interviews were taken with the participants to get detailed data regarding parental engagement in the research context. Most of the school staff and the parents were very much positive regarding the role of parental engagement in the school but the engagement level was very low. The findings of the study recommend arranging teacher-parent meetings or arranging such activities where parents could be involved in the learning process of their children.
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Early childhood education, Learning process , Parental engagement, Teacher-parent meetingsReferences
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