Successful Educational Actions Through Family Involvement

Abstract

Family involvement in educational activities is proven to improve children’s academic outcomes. In this sense, the results obtained by INCLUD-ED highlighted five types of family/community involvement , i.e., informative , consultative , decisive , evaluative and educative , and their individual effects on academic achievement. The results indicate that the decisive, evaluative, and educative types contribute the most to academic success . Examples of successful actions involving families are the dialogic literary gatherings (non-academic interactions where families are involved in reading classic literature), family digital and media literacy and parents and children’s clubs. The research reveals a connection between the aforementioned types of family involvement and student learning outcomes, as such family and community involvement in education transforms educational interactions in the school, the street and the household.