Partnership for training. Genitori, docenti e dirigenti a confronto. Strumenti e modelli di valutazione

Abstract

This paper focuses on the need to work on co-responsability between school and family. This aim is developed assuming that a growing interest on quality schools involves the construction of significant alliances. Building a common "Pact" between these two important educational agencies means increasing a global and meaningful development of the students. The Ecological systems theory explains how the child, on his path of bio-psycho-social maturation, is constantly influenced by different and interdependent "systems", which simultaneously exert their effect over the child. In view of this natural interdependence, the school-family alliance becomes a pivot upon which to base the pact of co-responsibility in order to give unity and significance to the educational development path of the child-student. To assess the levels of common co-planning and profitable exchange activated inside formal education sites, the present contribution makes use of three different interviews carried out respectively with teachers, parents and head teachers in a network of sicilian schools. Understanding the current relational models pursued is interesting for the future design of new ways to rethink the relationship between schools and families.