Læreres opplevelse av muligheter i skole-hjem-samarbeidet

Abstract

This study investigates How teachers experience their opportunities to establish a good school-home cooperation. The study is based on interviews with ten teachers at four primary schools in which the teachers relate their experiences of opportunities for and challenges of establishing collaboration between the school and the home, as well as their professional place within this collaboration. The study has shown that, to a great extent, the teachers have developed their own practices of dealing with school-home cooperation. The teachers seem to receive little support from structures and routines within the schools. One finding is that the teachers’ meetings with parents and parent-teacher conferences are largely characterized by formalities that seem to hinder a genuine collaboration.