Family and School Cooperation as Social Capital

Nataša V. Duhanaj, Maša M. Đurišić

Abstract


Starting from the belief that the interaction and connection between people, on which the relationship between the family and the school is based, is a value for itself, from the specific aspect of the theory of social capital, the cooperation between the family and the school is viewed. The paper aims to describe the cooperation between family and school as a form of social capital, i.e. as a resource that contributes to the educational achievements of students. Representation and outcomes of social capital in the education field are analyzed from different points of view. Different levels of social capital analysis potentially lead to implications for the improvement of family-school cooperation operationalized by different activities of parental involvement in children's education by (in)equality of family resources and context.

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systemic ecological theory; social capital; education; family-school cooperation

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