Early childhood educators working to establish and maintain productive parent-teacher relationships are essential to the success of school-community partnerships in military- connected schools. The purpose of this study was to seek understanding of what early childhood educators had experienced while working with military families. Epstein's model of school, family, and community partnerships provided the conceptual framework for this study. The questions that guided this case study were designed to explore how early childhood educators established and maintained relationships with military families. Data collection consisted of semi-structured interviews with 8 early childhood educators in military-connected schools. Inductive data analysis was used to code the data initially and then to determine these 5 themes: (a) educators used many methods to communicate with families; (b) parent involvement was influenced by educator communication, family life, and school culture; (c) deployments impacted student achievement; (d) strong community resources were deemed necessary; and (e) military children benefitted from having resilient educators. Participants believed timely training addressing the unique needs of military families would be advantageous. A 3-day professional development for early childhood educators was developed to incorporate the findings of this study. School districts implementing the professional development for early childhood educators in a strong school, family, and community partnership will result and will lead to positive social change by increasing the academic achievement, emotional wellbeing, and social welfare of children of military families attending military-connected schools.

In my work I have researched the phenomenon of the virtues in education, their importance and their influence on the development of children's character. I inquire into the foundation of The education in the virtues, from the philosophical principles and traditions, what was based on and what it is based on nowadays. I study the manner of it's anchoring in the Framework of Education Programme for Elementary Education and I am interested in educational institutions and subjects in the Czech Republic which deal with this field. I state these educational institutions and subjects, which have education in virtues included as an integrated educational program. Many of these institutions have found inspiration from abroad, that's why I include findings from foreign countries. KEYWORDS Virtues, self development, ethics, education, values, family, school

The submitted diploma degree thesis deals with the development of pre-reading literacy in family environment. The aim of this thesis is to find out which ideas about developing early reading skills parents have and how they build pre-reading skills in their children. The thesis is also focused on parent-child communication and child's vocabulary. The theoretical part defines basic terms relevant to the topic of reading and literacy. It offers characteristics of a pre-school child and his development in areas which are related to pre-reading literacy. The particularization of the term of pre-reading literacy and activities supporting literacy skills are presented as well.It defines the concept of family communication and child-directed speech. The final chapter of the theoretical part describes previous research that has been conducted in this field in the past. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on the study of research literature and crucial research. The practical part is devoted to an empirical study. It consists of five case studies which are focused on the analysis of video recordings connected to the development of pre-reading literacy in family environment. The video recordings were anonymized and, with slight deviations, transcribed according to the CHAT system, which is a part of...

The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine the possible formation of surrogate families within Ugandan schools to provide a context for positive development experiences, especially for orphans who lack positive development opportunities provided by parents. The sample for this study consisted of 66 Ugandan Secondary School students from eight schools in the Mukono district of Uganda. This study found a potentially widespread family formation pattern between students and their teachers/coaches. More than 75% of students self-identified their teacher and/or coach as family. The results provide insight concerning why orphans and vulnerable children are forming surrogate families with staff members at school. Teachers and coaches were able to offer the students positive developmental assets and were therefore identified as family.

The bases of this diploma thesis are a family and school cooperation, means of cooperation and ways leading to a cooperation improvement. The submitted work deals with theoretical aspects of the family and school co- operation and a report from a practical investigation on this subject executed at the primary school follows. The research is based on the exploring method of an interview (i.a. via web pages created by myself) for current and future teachers at primary schools and for parents. The work focuses on upgrading and reengineering of communication forms be- tween schools and parents. The parent is considered as a "consumer , a "partner or a "citizen . This point of view is based on the empirical research of the family and school cooperation by Milada Rabušicová and Milan Pol. This research has been executed at the primary schools in Brno. Next, the models of family and school partnerships in accordance with Birte Ravnová are also introduced. A definition of terms: a family (by several experts), a function of family and type of family (in accordance with so-called a "Functionality of family questionnaire ) is introduced. Next terms as: a school and social atmosphere, a school environment, a positive school atmosphere (and its important character in compliance with Helena Grecmanová) are also presented....

Annotation: The aim of this thesis is to summarize knowledge about physical activity in school age children, and through questionnaries examiners to identify physical activities for children at primary school (1st - 5th grade). The theoretical part focuses on definitions of basic concepts related to the issues and defining the scope and impact of physical activity on health of individuals. Furthemore, given to the characteristics of preschool age and family influence and school physical activity at junior schoul age children. Part of the thesis is also research section designed to obtain current knowledge about children's physical activity at 1st degree of primary school.

In the diploma thesis we ask the question whether the important agents of socialization family and school reproduce gender stereotypes which associate women with the role of a carer about family and household and men with the role of a breadwinner and with the orientation to the field of technology. We focus on whether family and school reproduce these stereotypes in connection with the definition of a career and in relation to horizontal and vertical segregation at the labour market. The reproduction of gender stereotypes viewing women as carer about family and household and men as breadwinners and the reproduction of gender stereotype connecting rather men than women with technical orientation are conjoined with gender scheme theory of Sandra Bem and with Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus. The diploma thesis aims at the Czech society, mainly in the period from 2001 to 2011. To answer the question we ask in the diploma thesis we draw on literature, on quantitative and qualitative research dealing with the themes we are concerned with, on statistics of Czech Statistical Office, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Institute for Information on Education, and on selected data from international longitudinal research International Social Survey Programme...

Title: Forms of Family and School Cooperation at the Beginning of School Attendance Supervisor: Mgr. Jana Kargerová, PhD. Author: Monika Cihelková Abstract: The diploma thesis deals with forms of cooperation between a family and a school at the beginning of school attendance. The theoretical part defines the terms school, family and teacher. Then it characterizes the family, and also the school as an institution that combines teaching and educating (bringing up), and pays attention to involving parents in the process of education. It introduces possible forms of communication and cooperation between the family and the school, and also the cooperation based on curriculum and other documents (e.g. the programme Step by Step). The empirical part includes qualitative research (observation, interview, questionnaire), which is aimed at one of the effective forms of the school- family cooperation at the beginning of school attendance, namely at parent - pupil - teacher consultation. This part brings information about the results of such a cooperation in the programme Step by Step. It tries to find and map if the consultations (office hours) at the beginning of school attendance represent an effective form of cooperation, and how they contribute to parents, pupils and teachers. Key Words: School and family,...

A pergunta que intitula este trabalho motivou visitas, nos fins de semana, pelo período de todo o ano de 2007 a dez escolas estaduais na cidade de São Paulo (SP) para o acompanhamento do Programa Escola da Família. Descobriu-se um universo paralelo à escola formal, vivo e dinâmico, preso a valores pós-modernos, cujo resultado é uma educação para o exercício da cidadania que, de tão fragmentária e livre de critérios mais rigorosos de execução, acaba por educar, mas não a ponto de formar cidadãos. Trata-se, nesse sentido, do que chamamos de uma ponte educacional construída pela metade ou interrompida no meio. Donde este estudo conduziu a uma segunda pergunta: É possível, então, complementá-la e levá-la ao fim a que se destina: formar a comunidade escolar para o exercício crítico e consciente da cidadania? Com base em significativa coleta de dados pela via presencial, documental e testemunhal, ressaltamos os pontos negativos e positivos desse programa, buscando oferecer também sugestões viáveis para responder a essa outra questão, no que se salienta a importância do programa como espaço para a educação informal, com potencial de alterar para melhor o clima organizacional da escola, o seu currículo oculto. Tudo procurando não perder de vista, na dissertação, o tom poético que o acontecimento educacional num ambiente rústico, como o do programa, inspira. / The question question that entitles this paper (Programa Escola da Familia Is it possible to educate to the citizenship?) motivated visits, on weekends, throughout the year 2007, to ten public schools of the São Paulo State, in the capital city São Paulo, to observe the School of Family Program (Programa Escola da Família PEF). A lively and dynamic parallel universe to formal school was discovered, chained to post modern values, whose consequence is an education for the practice of citizenship which, for being so fragmentary and free of more severe execution criteria, ends up to educate, but not on the point of forming real citizens. Thus, this education for citizenship practice deals with what we called an educational bridge built halfway on interrupted in the middle. This idea has led to a second question: Is it possible, then, to complement and conduct it to the purpose to which it was destined: to form a school community aiming at the critical and conscious practice of citizenship? Basing on significant data collecting, from attendance, papers and testimonies, both the positive and negative aspects of this Program have been emphasized. It was also attempted to offer viable suggestions to answer this second question, in what the importance of the Program, as an opportunitty to the informal education, is pointed out, with potential to change the organizational climate of shool (its invisible curriculum) for the better. And everything, in the dissertation, was done trying not to lose sight of the poetic tone that, the educational happening in a rough environment, as that of the Program, inspires.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:56:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcela Pasqualucci Ronca.pdf: 641200 bytes, checksum: 7d904049a6e85729cff82a763e91c2e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this research was: (i) to identify how teachers describe and analyze their involvement in a students' home visiting program; and (ii) to collect their suggestions to improve the program and to overcome its problems. The investigation was guided by the well documented fact that schools and families should cooperate between them in a joint effort to improve the quality of education offered to children and adolescents. The expectative was that home visiting could modify, in a positive direction, teachers' knowledge about their students, their families and their way of life, leading to the construction of new and more adequate teaching strategies. The research adopted a qualitative approach. The data was collected in one of the Great São Paulo s county (SP-BR) using semi-structured questionnaires (applied to 13 teachers) and in-depth interviews (conducted with those who agreed in conceding them).The results showed that, according to the participants, this program has brought results for the pedagogical practice, as they were acquainted with the reality of their students and their families. The reflection of this participation occurred in the construction of new teaching strategies through which they could serve better and more precise the individual needs of students. This knowledge, however, was not enough to positively change the perception of teachers about families. It was concluded that to achieve the expected results, the specific program of home visits needs to rethink their actions, incorporating into their planning teacher's view, expanding to other professionals and providing space for discussion and improvement / O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi: (i) identificar como professoras descrevem e analisam seu envolvimento em um programa de visitas domiciliares a seus alunos; e (ii) coletar suas sugestões acerca de como aprimorar o programa e superar seus eventuais problemas. A investigação foi guiada pelo fato bem documentado de que escolas e famílias devem cooperar entre si em um esforço conjunto voltado para aperfeiçoar a qualidade da educação oferecida a crianças e adolescentes. A expectativa era a de que as visitas domiciliares pudessem modificar positivamente o conhecimento das professoras sobre seus alunos, suas famílias e seu modo de vida, levando-as à construção de novas e mais adequadas estratégias de ensino. A pesquisa seguiu uma abordagem qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados em um município da Grande São Paulo que tinha adotado um Programa de Visitas Domiciliares em suas escolas. As informações necessárias foram obtidas por meio de questionários semi-estruturados aplicados a 13 professoras e de entrevistas em profundidade conduzida junto às duas delas, que concordaram em concedê-las. Os resultados da análise empreendida mostraram que, para as professoras, participar deste programa trouxe resultados para a prática pedagógica, pois puderam conhecer melhor a realidade de seus alunos e suas famílias. O reflexo desta participação se deu na construção de novas estratégias pedagógicas, por meio das quais puderam atender melhor e de forma mais precisa e individualizada as necessidades dos discentes. Esse conhecimento, entretanto, não foi suficiente para alterar positivamente a percepção das professoras a respeito das famílias. Concluiu-se que para atingir os resultados esperados, esse programa específico de visitas domiciliares precisa repensar suas ações, incorporando em seu planejamento a visão das professoras, ampliando seu campo de ação para outros profissionais da escola e oferecendo espaço para discussão e aperfeiçoamento do programa