RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY AND PRE-SCHOOL INSTITUTION – TOWARDS A QUALITY PARTNERSHIP

Abstract

One of major indicators of the quality of pre-school education and moral education is a relationship between a family and a pre-school institution. This relationship is a prerequisite for realisation of the tasks of education and moral education determined by the Programme of pre-school education and moral education, which is the reason why the paper discusses attitudes of educators and parents concerning their mutual relationship in the process of education and moral education. In addition, the paper presents the most dominant forms of the aforementioned partnership, stating that, based on a research involving 572 parents and 811 educators from 42 pre-school institutions in the Republic of Srpska, this partnership, in most cases, comprises a two-way exchange of information about the current state of affairs in the institution designated, about general progress of a particular child, and about generating an encouraging environment for studying at home. All this points to a more traditional approach as regards the relationship in question, which mainly implies that parents take a passive role, limiting their activities to parent-teacher meetings and one-to-one office hours with the respective teacher. The results given imply the necessity for establishing new forms of parent-teacher partnership, which would lead to improvements in a family – pre-school institution relationship. That way, there would be better conditions created in order to provide a response to numerous challenges the modern-day family is confronted with, as well as more opportunities for the pre-school institution, which, as such, can mobilise its capacities in order to adapt to the changes occurring on a daily basis.