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POLONIA, Ana da Costa  e  DESSEN, Maria Auxiliadora. Towards understanding parent school relationship. Psicol. esc. educ. [online]. 2005, vol.9, n.2, pp. 303-312. ISSN 1413-8557.

Researchers and educators have showed an increasingly interest in the study of the relationship between family and school due to its importance for education and human development. In this theoretical article, we present some reflections about the importance of the family-school involvement and its impact on the learning process and child development. The benefits of a good integration between family and school as well as the implications of a lack of integration between them are briefly discussed. Moreover, we present some aspects of their relationships that have been focused on empirical research, emphasizing the conceptions and types of family-school involvement and teacher and parental perceptions about it. At the end, we move the focus to discuss the necessity of promoting a better integration between family and school, considering the peculiarities of each one, and implementing researches taking account of the interrelatedness between both contexts.

Palavras-chave : Learning; Parent school; Childhood development.