Analyzing the Facilitators of Family Participation in Educational Policies

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the facilitators of family participation in educational policies. The type of research is applied and the research method is qualitative. The research community of expert were experts in the field of family, policy-making familiar to the field of education and family. Based on criteria such as interest in participating in studies, having work experience in the field of educational policy-making were select purposeful sampling.  The instrument data collection was semi-structured interview.  The framework of which was compiled based on the content analysis of the research literature and edited based on the opinions of three relevant experts. After conducting the interview, the resulting data were analyzed using the Delphi method. The findings indicate that the experts divided 27 facilitators into 5 groups (governmental (with 5 facilitators), social (with 9 facilitators), legal (with 3 facilitators), structural with (7 facilitators) and educational with (4 facilitators) introduced. The result of this study shows the fact that the future family can have an active presence in educational policy-making if the ground for four main aspects is prepared for this presence. One aspect is the belief of educational policy makers that they believe in the presence of the family in determining educational policies, the other aspect is that the families have received the necessary education and training for this necessity, the third aspect is that there is transparency of information and circulation of information. Families can get accurate information about the state of education, the functioning of the education system and the policy-making system. The fourth point is that both institutions of family and education trust each other and consider being together as mutually beneficial. These four aspects together will facilitate the presence of the family in the educational policy making process.

Keywords

• facilitators
• educational policy
• family participation
• education system