Analysing national parental engagement policies in England

What is it about?

Parental engagement receives attention from policymakers around the world because it can improve pupil outcomes. However, there is a significant gap in our understanding of how parental engagement is represented in national policy and how its positioning might affect parental engagement practices for school-age children. In this paper we identify four key issues, including inconsistent conceptualisations of parental engagement across different policies and a one-size-fits-all approach that ignores equity issues. We make four recommendations, including calling for an explicit focus on engaging all parents and for quality teacher training that prepares teachers to facilitate effective parental engagement.

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Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash