Formal Education of Students. Dominant Institutionalisation or Symmetric Involvement of Parents and Teachers?

Abstract

Social changes happening in the last decades challenge modern schools with many new tasks. One of them is the necessity to open to and derive from resources of environment which takes part in multidimensional non-scholar education. In order to pursue the didactic process in environmentally extended way, teachers should abandon their dominant attitude in favour of open dialogue with other persons and building symmetric relations based on partnership. Nevertheless, family should be the very basic entity present in the process of school education. The analysis of parental involvement into their children didactic process, presented in this study, is based on selected primary schools from Rzeszów put in order on qualitative scale. The following degrees on scale are represented by direct, indirect and passive engagement of parents in didactic process. Each category includes scope of activity, family and school environment.