Estrategias para promover la participación de familias en la educación de niños en escuelas chilenas

Abstract Regarding family-school relationship, benefits have been studied more than the strategies to promote it. For this reason, this paper intends to explore the vision that principals have of parental participation in education and describe the strategies implemented in their schools, by conducting interviews with the principals of twenty-nine public elementary schools in the Metropolitan Area, Chile. The results show high expectations towards the families in the definition of participation, at the same time as a critical evaluation of the condition in which the family is in their schools....