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Invitation: Parental Involvement

Reos Partners and JET Education Services are embarking on a process to combine their expertise to address systemic challenges in the education sector. Together, they have identified the potential lever of parental (or caregiver involvement)1 in education as an opportunity to significantly improve educational outcomes, particularly in the Foundation Phase of the child’s development.

JET Exchanges 3/2021: Parental involvement for school improvement: A South African perspective

This paper gives a brief introduction and background to parental and caregiver2 involvement in schools, particularly in rural schools in South Africa, through reviewing some of the literature on the subject. It also presents some suggestions on what can be done to improve parental involvement in rural schools. The intention of this paper is to stimulate discussion on this important aspect of school improvement.