Meetings without Communication: A Study of Parents' Evenings in Secondary Schools.

Y

16

Foreign Countries; Interpersonal Communication; Interviews; Parent Attitudes; Parent School Relationship; Parent Student Relationship; Parent Teacher Conferences; Power Structure; Secondary Education; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes

0141-1926

Reports on an ethnographic study of parents' evenings at British secondary schools as seen from the perspectives of all involved. Collects data from in-depth interviews with staff, parents, and students, and by observation. Indicates that meetings are unique interactional events that create problematic interface between the power bases of home and school. (DSK)

1999

EJ586835