Fostering trust. Parents and teachers cooperation as a case study

• Authors: Rusnak Monika

Title variants

PL

Wspieranie zaufania. Studium pedagogiczne współpracy rodziców i nauczycieli

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The changing European context challenges the education system in Poland. Schools and parents are supposed to cope effectively with increasing expectations, neoliberal pressure, and lack of time (Graham-Clay 2005). Being a teacher involves continuously seeking new solutions and ways to respond to these challenges throughout the whole teaching practice. Parenthood is also a lifelong learning process constantly shaped by communities around parents and the world at large (Mendel 2016). In these rapidly changing times, even the well-established concepts of traditional family and teacher roles are being redefined. In the paper, the author will comment on the results of research, which shed light on trust as a key factor in fostering cooperation among parents and teachers in the context of Poland. The methodological framework (Mouffe 1999; 2013; Koczanowicz 2015) which the author has chosen allowed her to achieve certain positive effects, such as establishing meaningful partnership and thus challenging the existing educational reality

PL

Zmieniający się kontekst europejski stanowi wyzwanie dla systemu edukacji w Polsce. Od szkoły i rodziców oczekuje się radzenia sobie z rosnącymi oczekiwaniami, presją neoliberalną i brakiem czasu (Graham-Clay 2005). Bycie nauczycielem wymaga ciągłego poszukiwania nowych rozwiązań i sposobów reagowania na te wyzwania w swojej pracy. Rodzicielstwo jest również procesem uczenia się przez całe życie, stale kształtowanym przez społeczności wokół rodziców (Mendel 2016). W tych szybko zmieniających się czasach, nawet mocno osadzone w tradycji koncepcje rodziny i nauczyciela ulegają ciągłym modyfikacjom. W artykule autorka skomentuje wyniki badań własnych dotyczących zaufania, jako kluczowego czynnika wspierającego współpracę między rodzicami i nauczycielami w kontekście Polski. Ramy metodologiczne (Mouffe 1999; 2013; Koczanowicz 2015), które wybrała autorka, pozwoliły jej osiągnąć pewne pozytywne efekty, takie jak nawiązanie znaczącego partnerstwa i tym samym zakwestionowanie istniejącej rzeczywistości edukacyjnej.

Keywords

EN

cooperation; trust; action research; Poland

PL

zaufanie; współpraca; badania w działaniu; Polska

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Zielonogórski. Oficyna Wydawnicza
• Journal: Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 19
• Pages: 137-149

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Rusnak Monika

• University of Lower Silesia, Faculty of Education, Doctoral Studies of Pedagogy in English Language, Wrocław, Poland

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ISSN

2084-2740