家长参与教育的政治社会学分析

Political Sociology in Parent Involvement and Education Reform

教育改革和发展是关涉千家万户的大事,作为主要利益相关者之一的家长,其参与既是一种义务,更是一种权利。然而事实上,学校外部的教育改革政策家长无权置喙,学校内部则由于地位不平等、信息不对称、拥有的文化资本悬殊,导致家长参与变成家长参训,家校联系亦只是一种自上而下的权力意志的贯彻和规定话语的表达,家长真正参与的话语权被完全剥夺。从社会正义的立场出发,家长参与应持有的基本理念是平等、公正、正义和发展。

Education reform and development directly concerns every family and parents are actually its major participants ; the parent involvement is not only a kind of obligation but a kind of right as well. However, the parents have no right to participate in deciding the education reform outside the school. At the same time, in the school, parent involvement has been reduced to parent training because of unequal status, asymmetric in- formation and the great disparity in cultural capital. The relationship between parents and the school is only a top-down implementation of the will of power, and parents have been totally deprived of their participation right. Viewed from the perspective of social justice, the basic ideas on which parent involvement should be built are equality, fairness, and justice.