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Home-School Collaboration in Sweden and China

This article is a working paper presenting a network building cooperative project between Umeå University inSweden and Zhejiang University in China. The project focuses on parents’ involvement and home-schoolcollaboration in Sweden and China and has an ambition to entail a set of empirical objectives: (1) to map andcompare the systems, policies, curricula, and resources dealing with home-school collaboration in Sweden andChina at the national level; (2) to identify and analyze the similarities and differences in the definitions, foci,models, practices, and perspectives on home-school collaboration in the two countries at the local level; and (3) toidentify and seek out good examples and models from both countries for communication and interaction amongteachers, parents, and students. Following an introduction to the project design where a comparative case-studyapproach is presented, this article reviews policies and researches concerning home-school collaboration inSwedish and Chinese contexts. Cases from both countries are selected, described, and discussed. Relative issues forfurther study are suggested. / Establishing research network between Sweden and China on cooperation between home and school

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-70223
Date January 2013
CreatorsKristoffersson, Margaretha, Gu, Limin, Zhang, Yan
PublisherUmeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, David Publishing Company
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle in journal, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationUS-China Education Review B, 2161-6248, 2013, 3:3, s. 188-201

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