Title: 
Headings: Parental Involvement as a Important Factor for Successful Education
Parental
 
Involvement
 
as
 
a
 
Important
 
Factor
 
for
 
Successful
 
Education

Vključevanje
 
staršev
 
kot
 
pomemben
 
dejavnik
 
uspešnega
 
izobraževanja

Introduction
 

Models
 
of
 
parental
 
involvement

Determinants
 
of
 
Parental
 
Involvement

Parental
 
involvement:
 
a
 
summary
 
of
 
empirical
 
findings

Barriers
 
to
 
parental
 
involvement

Adequately
 
parent
 
involvement:
  
examples
 
of
 
good
 
practice

Conclusion
 

References

Biographical
 
note


Content: Research
 
has
 
also
 
shown
 
that
 
successful
 
students’
 
have
 
strong
 
academic
 
support
 
from
 
their
 
in-
volved
 
parents
 
(Sheldon,
 
2009). Furthermore,
 
research
 
on
 
effective
 
schools,
 
those
 
where
 
students
 
are
 
learning
 
and
 
achieving,
 
has
 
consistently
 
shown
 
that
 
these
 
schools
 
despite
 
often
 
working
 
in
 
low
 
social
 
and
 
economic
 
neighborhoods,
 
have
 
strong
 
and
 
positive
 
school-home
 
relationships
 
(Sanders
 
&
 
Sheldon,
 
2009; Sheldon,
 
2009). More
 
importantly,
 
these
 
effective
 
schools
 
with
 
positive
 
school
 
climate,
 
have
 
made
 
a
 
real
 
effort
 
in
 
reaching
 
out
 
to
 
their
 
students’
 
families
 
in
 
order
 
to
 
bring
 
about
 
good
 
cooperation. Sanders
 
and
 
Sheldon
 
(2009)
 
maintain
 
that
 
schools
 
become
 
successful
 
when
 
a
 
strong
 
and
 
positive
 
relationship
 
among
 
students,
 
parents,
 
teachers
 
and
 
the
 
community
 
has
 
been
 
established. All
 
stu-
dents’
 
are
 
more
 
likely
 
to
 
experience
 
academic
 
success
 
if
 
their
 
home
 
environ-
ment
 
is
 
supportive
 
(Henderson
 
&
 
Berla,
 
1994; Sanders
 
&
 
Sheldon,
 
2009). Epstein
 
(2001,
 
2009)
 
alleges
 
that
 
there
 
are
 
many
 
reasons
 
for
 
develop
-
ing
 
and
 
establishing
 
a
 
partnership
 
between
 
school,
 
family
 
and
 
community. The
 
main
 
reason
 
for
 
such
 
a
 
partnership
 
is
 
to
 
aid
 
students
 
in
 
succeeding
 
at
 
school. Other
 
reasonsinclude
 
improvinge
 
school
 
climate
 
and
 
school
 
programs,
 
devel-
oping
 
parental
 
skills
 
and
 
leadership,
 
assisting
 
families
 
in
 
connecting
 
with
 
oth
-
ers
 
in
 
the
 
school
 
and
 
the
 
community,
 
and
 
assisting
 
teachers
 
with
 
their
 
work.