Author : Professor John Kanjogu Kiumi
Publisher : IPR Journals and Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 996619939X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (661 download)
Book Synopsis Parent-School Conflict Management: Research, Theory and Practice by : Professor John Kanjogu Kiumi
Download or read book Parent-School Conflict Management: Research, Theory and Practice written by Professor John Kanjogu Kiumi and published by IPR Journals and Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education empowers individuals with knowledge skills and values which in turn enables them to build a better world. Since the school is the primary context within which education takes place, it follows that parents and teachers must work in harmony so as to miximize children’s learning gains. The process of parent-school interaction, however has the potential to generate conflict due to differing perspectives between teachers and parents on how best to educate children. This brings to the fore a number of questions: How can headteachers manage these conflicts productively since their role expectation is to provide quality leadership so as to enhance the schools capacity to deliver on its mandate? Are there personal factors that are likely to influence the choice of parent-school conflict management styles by headteachers? These are the two questions that Prof. J. Kanjogu sought to answer in this book. The book is a product of field-based research in public primary schools in Nyahururu sub-county-Kenya. The book will be useful to school managers, teachers, parents, education researchers and teacher education institutions given that they teach courses in school management