On Types of Parental Participation in Primary Schools
On Types of Parental Participation in Primary Schools

Summary/Abstract: Social changes triggered numerous changes in family and school – two basic educational environments. It also influenced significantly parents and teachers’ relations. Once playing a peripheral role in their children’s education, now, according tolegal regulations, parents have become teacher’s partners. Despite clear legal regulations,many parents find it difficult to place themselves in educational reality. Thus, we can observe the whole range of parental behaviours, from adaptive through indifferent to behaviours based on social participation. This study is devoted to the problem of building parental commitment to school affairs. The author has focused on methodsand strategies stimulating the activity of parental groups by councils of parents’ representatives.This study is based on empirical research carried out in 2015 in urban primaryschools from Podkarpacie province. Methods and strategies building parental community by councils of parents’ representatives were arranged on qualitative scale, which successive stages are created by active, ideational and structural participation.

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