Parent Council – formal and informal education of pupils

Abstract

Modern educational system extends its boundaries beyond school, seen as a formal entity responsible for educational processes of young generation. Children and youths also acquire knowledge and develop their skills in, in its broadest sense, non-scholar environment, full of qualitatively different educational stimuli. Such a situation forces school to demonopolise education and un-certificate abilities in favour of satisfying needs and developing students’ didactic ambitions on the basis of educational partnership. Naturally, teachers are supported in their attempts to balance scholar and non-scholar educational impact by parental community, especially by their representative form, which is parent council. Parental organs in school can naturally initiate environmental operations, taking into account students’ extra-scholar experience in school’s work, as well as to include entities functioning in the closest environment into schools’ educational and upbringing processes. Therefore, this article’s theoretical and empirical content outlines efforts initiated