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This project aims to develop and test ways of improving pupil attainment
by enhancing collaboration between parents and teachers.
More specifically, the project is based on the assumption that
the knowledge and skills of teachers and parents are both valuable
for children’s learning. Can we raise standards and pupil attitudes
further through the development of new forms of school-home collaboration?
If so, by how much, and which approaches are likely to work best?
Working with schools and families in urban working and middle
class communities, these issues will be investigated through action
research projects focused on literacy, numeracy and primary/secondary
transfer.
The project will be based in Bristol and Cardiff and has been
developed with the close cooperation of teachers and LEA officers.
Twelve primary and four secondary schools will be involved in detailed
development work focused on literacy at Key Stage 1, numeracy at
Key Stage 2 and transfer between Key Stages 2 and 3. Teachers, parents
and researchers will work closely together to develop activities
in which different kinds of knowledge about children and their learning
are shared. Monitoring methods will include large-scale statistical
comparisons with pupils in non-participating schools, detailed pupil
case-studies and analytic accounts of each action research theme.
The main outcomes will be the generation and systematic evaluation
of new forms of home-school collaboration to enhance pupil attainment.
The project will thus be of direct relevance to parents, teachers
and educational policy-makers.
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