Investigation of the participation of the parents in the education process in primary schools (Sultanbeyli sample)

It is thought that the cooperation between the teacher and the parent is the center of the connection between school, family and student. In this context, it was aimed to determine the level of participation of the parents of the elementary school students in the educational process. The data in the research, which was designed with quantitative and qualitative methods, were conducted in the 2018–2019 academic year with the parents participation scale and semi-structured parent interview form which were applied to the parents of the students in different primary schools in the Sultanbeyli district of Istanbul. In the analysis of the quantitative data, Mann Whitney U and Kruskall Vallis H test were used according to the results of normality distribution. Qualitative data were analyzed by descriptive and content analysis. According to the results of the study, parents are more than average in the education process of their children. It was determined that parents mostly participated in the training process in terms of communication with children, creating a home-supportive environment to support learning and supporting the child's homework and studies. In addition, according to the demographic characteristics of the parents, it was determined that there were differences between the levels of participation of their children in the education process.