Many teachers do not question the fact that they have a shared responsibility with parents for educating children, despite anecdotal evidence that this division of power can be problematic for both parties. Academic research has done little to help bridge the gap between parents and teachers; until relatively recently, it explored the motivation for parents and teachers to work together in separate studies (Jacobs, 2008). This belief seems to have infiltrated society as many teachers and parents are not yet fully used to viewing collaboration as two interwoven strands coming from different points of origin to create one common end – the education and development of their children.
Engaging parents
The two extremes
The problem for teachers is that we often experience two extremes. At one end we struggle to engage parents who show little interest in their child’s education and at the other, we can feel vulnerable and even under attack from the omnipresent eye of parents who dem
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