26Jun 2017

PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGIES IN FIJI SCHOOLS - A REVIEW.

  • Ministry of Education, Fiji.
  • The University of Fiji, Saweni, Lautoka, Fiji.
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Parental engagement in children?s education has been an effective resource for enlightening student achievement and has been very instrumental in the lives of students, teachers and the school (Banda, Coleman and Matuszny, 2007). Many benefits of parental engagement in schools have been acknowledged in educational literature and quite a number of researchers have highlighted that parental involvement in education gives rise to greater student achievement. In this paper, Ministry of Education, Fiji?s reform on Parental Engagement Framework and Strategies has been reviewed. Firstly, the paper explains what parental engagement is and highlights the parental engagement framework and strategies, Next, it discusses the purpose of the reform and highlights its strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it discusses how the reform has affected me as a teacher. Furthermore, the impact of this reform on the teaching and learning process and student learning outcomes is discussed. Finally, some recommendations have been made to improve the reform on parental engagement framework and strategies. The essay concludes that parents are the most important partner in children?s? education and schools can reap large benefits by taking advantage of their support.

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[Mohammed Hafiz and Mohammed Farik. (2017); PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGIES IN FIJI SCHOOLS - A REVIEW. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jun). 1799-1805] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Mohammed Farik
The University of Fiji

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4606      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4606

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