An Assessment of Teacher - Parent Collaboration in Promoting Quality Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Phase: A Case Study of Sibasa Circuit Primary Schools, Limpopo Province

dc.contributor.advisorSikhwari, M. G.
dc.contributor.advisorTshisikhawe, M. P.
dc.contributor.authorMurunwa, Ndifelani Bridgette
dc.date2020
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-21T07:24:07Z
dc.date.available2020-12-21T07:24:07Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionMEd (Educational Management)en_ZA
dc.descriptionDepartment of Educational Management
dc.description.abstractThe South African legislation through the constitution and the South African Schools Act (SASA) of 1996 allows for parents make meaningful contribution towards their children’s school activities. In many countries, including South Africa, one of the strongest trends in education reform has been to give parents and community members, an increased role in governing schools. Lack of parental involvement has been identified as an obstacle in many primary schools in South African, particularly among the lower socioeconomic groups. As an educator, the researcher noticed that many learners in the Foundation phase either fail to do their homework or partially complete them due to lack of assistance and supervision back home. The study assessed teacher-parent collaboration in the Foundation Phase in primary schools in Sibasa circuit of Limpopo Province. The researcher used a qualitative case study approach and employed semistructured interviews and observation checklist to obtain data. A total of 4 primary schools with Foundation phase were purposively selected for the study. A total of 4 principals, 13 educators and 21 parents were purposively selected and interviewed for the study. Content analysis was used as the main method of data analysis. It involved identifying, coding and categorizing the primary patterns of data. The data in this study consisted mainly of individual interview transcripts and observations checklist. The findings indicated that the involved schools are not well resourced in terms of infrastructure. Based on the interviews, the benefits of parental involvement at the Foundation phase are well appreciated by the principals, educators and parents and despite that appreciations, barriers to effective parental involvement were evident. These included parents low level education status, broken families, inadequate resources in schools, inadequately prepared teachers in terms of parental involvement and poor communication between schools and parents. It was thus recommended that all stakeholders put measures and programmes in place for successful and effective parental involvement particularly for learners in the Foundation phase for better educational outcomes.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipNRFen_ZA
dc.format.extent1 online resource (ix, 121 leaves)
dc.identifier.apacitationMurunwa, N. B. (2020). <i>An Assessment of Teacher - Parent Collaboration in Promoting Quality Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Phase: A Case Study of Sibasa Circuit Primary Schools, Limpopo Province</i>. (). . Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1644en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMurunwa, Ndifelani Bridgette. <i>"An Assessment of Teacher - Parent Collaboration in Promoting Quality Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Phase: A Case Study of Sibasa Circuit Primary Schools, Limpopo Province."</i> ., , 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1644en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMurunwa, Ndifelani Bridgette (2020) An Assessment of Teacher - Parent Collaboration in Promoting Quality Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Phase: A Case Study of Sibasa Circuit Primary Schools, Limpopo Province. University of Venda, South Africa. <http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1644>.
dc.identifier.ris TY - Dissertation AU - Murunwa, Ndifelani Bridgette AB - The South African legislation through the constitution and the South African Schools Act (SASA) of 1996 allows for parents make meaningful contribution towards their children’s school activities. In many countries, including South Africa, one of the strongest trends in education reform has been to give parents and community members, an increased role in governing schools. Lack of parental involvement has been identified as an obstacle in many primary schools in South African, particularly among the lower socioeconomic groups. As an educator, the researcher noticed that many learners in the Foundation phase either fail to do their homework or partially complete them due to lack of assistance and supervision back home. The study assessed teacher-parent collaboration in the Foundation Phase in primary schools in Sibasa circuit of Limpopo Province. The researcher used a qualitative case study approach and employed semistructured interviews and observation checklist to obtain data. A total of 4 primary schools with Foundation phase were purposively selected for the study. A total of 4 principals, 13 educators and 21 parents were purposively selected and interviewed for the study. Content analysis was used as the main method of data analysis. It involved identifying, coding and categorizing the primary patterns of data. The data in this study consisted mainly of individual interview transcripts and observations checklist. The findings indicated that the involved schools are not well resourced in terms of infrastructure. Based on the interviews, the benefits of parental involvement at the Foundation phase are well appreciated by the principals, educators and parents and despite that appreciations, barriers to effective parental involvement were evident. These included parents low level education status, broken families, inadequate resources in schools, inadequately prepared teachers in terms of parental involvement and poor communication between schools and parents. It was thus recommended that all stakeholders put measures and programmes in place for successful and effective parental involvement particularly for learners in the Foundation phase for better educational outcomes. DA - 2020 DB - ResearchSpace DP - Univen KW - Parental involvement KW - Educators KW - Learners KW - Parents KW - Foundation phase LK - https://univendspace.univen.ac.za PY - 2020 T1 - An Assessment of Teacher - Parent Collaboration in Promoting Quality Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Phase: A Case Study of Sibasa Circuit Primary Schools, Limpopo Province TI - An Assessment of Teacher - Parent Collaboration in Promoting Quality Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Phase: A Case Study of Sibasa Circuit Primary Schools, Limpopo Province UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1644 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11602/1644
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMurunwa NB. An Assessment of Teacher - Parent Collaboration in Promoting Quality Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Phase: A Case Study of Sibasa Circuit Primary Schools, Limpopo Province. []. , 2020 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1644en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.rightsUniversity of Venda
dc.subjectParental involvementen_ZA
dc.subjectEducatorsen_ZA
dc.subjectLearnersen_ZA
dc.subjectParentsen_ZA
dc.subjectFoundation phaseen_ZA
dc.subject.ddc372.10968257
dc.subject.lcshEducation -- South Africa -- Limpopo
dc.subject.lcshEducators -- South Africa -- Limpopo
dc.subject.lcshParents -- South Africa -- Limpopo
dc.subject.lcshParent-teacher relationship -- South Africa -- Limpopo
dc.subject.lcshEducation, Elementary -- South Africa -- Limpopo
dc.titleAn Assessment of Teacher - Parent Collaboration in Promoting Quality Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Phase: A Case Study of Sibasa Circuit Primary Schools, Limpopo Provinceen_ZA
dc.typeDissertationen_ZA
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