| Summary: | The aims of this study are to determine what foundations exist for parent involvement
at the schools, what the management tasks of principals with regard to parent involvement
are and in what degree and to what extent do parents get involved at school activities.
Liaison and collaboration between the primary educators (the parents) and the secondary
educators (the teachers) are essential to raise balanced adults. Therefore it is essential
for school principals to identify the fields of competence of the parents and the teachers
and to elaborate liaisons on the different point of tangency of the partnership to the
progress of the children.
Parent involvement at school activities is founded on religious, historical, juridical and
educational principles and on the fact that parent involvement at schools are a worldwide
appearance. In South Africa non-statutory and statutory tie-statures exist where parents
get the opportunity to get involved in the management of the school.
Whilst managing schools, principals have to create opportunities for parents to get
involved in the planning, organising, guidance and controlling of school activities to
promote parent involvement. School principals have to plan, organise, control and guide
parents to promote parent involvement. Hence healthy two way communication and
positive interpersonal relationships are conditions for effective parent involvement.
During the empirical investigation it was concluded that school principals have different
ways in which they promote parent involvement and the degree of parent involvement
differ from school to school. === Skripsie (MEd)--PU vir CHO, 1993
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