IS THERE A PLACE FOR MORE RIGHTS AT SCHOOL?

Authors

  • Iliyan Rizov Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Republic of Bulgaria
  • Mariana Mincheva - Rizova Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Republic of Bulgaria

Keywords:

rights of the school community (students, parents and teachers), teachers and parents’ expectations from school education, school community, еmpowerment

Abstract

There are significant positive changes and innovations in the school education when educational policies are based on values and rights (see more: Freire, P., 1973; Sahlberg, R., 2011; Robinson, C. & L. Aronica, 2017). How close teachers and parents are to this understanding and whether there is a place for more rights at school according to them? These are parts of the questions which we asked in the frames of a larger research of parents and teachers’ expectations and their satisfaction with education (Mincheva - Rizova, M., Il. Rizov, 2022). The research was conducted among 146 parents and 198 teachers from 17 schools through surveys and focus groups.
The results of the research showed that 56% of the surveyed teachers want more rights for themselves and 40% of the parents agree with this. A significant part (45%) of the asked teachers do not want more rights for parents and 52% of parents agree with them. About half of the surveyed teachers (48%) and parents (55%) shared that students do not need more rights at school. The majority of the surveyed teachers and parents (about 50%) do not see the need for the school to be a place to practice more rights related to the roles of the students and the parents. This group prefers to see the institutional characteristics of the school. A smaller group of parents and teachers (from 6% to 15%) are of the opposite opinion. It is supposed to include those parents and teachers who prefer to see the school as a community. Most of the teachers and parents are far from the idea of the school as a community, they accept it as an institution and are satisfied with it. The idea of empowering parents and students seems to remain a distant prospect for our modern school, and the rights of the child are largely the missing focus in discussions about the quality and development of education. This topic has a potential for development if school communities are supported to better identify school problems and seek their solutions based on an understanding of human and child rights.

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Published

2023-12-10

How to Cite

Rizov, I., & Mincheva - Rizova, M. (2023). IS THERE A PLACE FOR MORE RIGHTS AT SCHOOL?. KNOWLEDGE - International Journal , 61(2), 345–351. Retrieved from https://ikm.mk/ojs/index.php/kij/article/view/6424