The Interaction between the School and the Family in Moral Upbringing of the Children
The Interaction between the School and the Family in Moral Upbringing of the Children

Summary/Abstract: The degree of cooperation between the school and the family in a child’smoral upbringing defines the quality of her/his psychological, emotional and moral development, her/his preparation for contacts of different levels outside the familymicro‐environment. Collective work of the school and the family is based on the principlesof humanistic pedagogy. The forms and methods of a teacher’s or a class teacher’swork with parents can be individual, group and collective. A leading role belongs to individual forms: visiting the student’s family, propaganda of family upbringing, performing pedagogical errands by parents, pedagogical consultations. Pedagogical consultationswhich are based on answering parents’ questions belong to the forms of individual work with parents. Psychological and pedagogical basis of the consultations are favorable attitude of teachers to parents’ initiatives; demonstration of readiness for providing the family with help; specific recommendations and advice on the issues with which parents refer to a teacher. A class teacher carries out group work with parents too. Parents from similar families are divided into groups. It can be incomplete families,families where parents lack some pedagogical knowledge, families with constant family conflicts; families with very strict and demanding parents or where there are no only demands from the father’s or the mother’s side etc. A teacher develops a specific program of elimination of these failures in upbringing having such families.

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