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ionnaires will be given to parents to discover their participation in school activities, communication between home and school and their attitude to school. Do you support school base activities at your child’s school? How do you solve problems you have with the school? Would you like to be involved in your child’s school? The responses from the questionnaires will be used to validate the research questions. Some of these questions will also be used to guide the focus group session.

Objectives or goals of the Innovation

By considering involvement as a means of empowering parents, one may be able, with the implementation of effective strategies, alleviate the situation of low involvement in school base activities. Consequently it is the goal of this action research to:-

Improve parental involvement in school base activities.

Decrease the challenges faced by parents that hindered their involvement in the programmes of the school.

Investigate what motivated parents’ involvement in school activities and whether any benefits will be derived from this arrangement.

To identify and discuss the activities in which parents participate that will most likely improved involvement.

At the end, it is the goal of the researcher that parental involvement in school activities will be improved. This will be ascertained through the records taken from the attendance register and the students’ participation in school base activities.

Description of the setting in which the innovation will be implemented

This action research project will be undertaken in Jamaica in an early childhood centre situated in an inner-city community plagued with poverty, violence and unemployment. Basic school education is conducted under the aegis of the Early Childhood Commission in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. The school has an enrolment of one hundred and ten students and seven practitioners inclusive of the principal. Students are between the ages of two and a half to five years old. Fifteen parents will be sampled randomly, while another fifteen parents will be selected purposively. The random sample will complete questionnaires while the purposive sample will participate in two focus group sessions on separate days. The random sample will have two days to complete and return questionnaires, while the purposive sample will participate in two focus group session for an hour each on the same day.

Assumptions and limitations of the action research

In conducting any research assumptions will be made to plan for the actions that will be taken:-

One assumption is that at the end of the study there will be an increase in parental involvement in school activities.

Participants in focus group will be honest and open in answering questions.

Parents will see the need to be involved in school activities.

Parents will participate in the research.

At least two fathers will participate in the research.

Limitations

Not having enough financial resources to provide refreshment, incentives, materials for the data collection and intervention.

Not enough time to evaluate improvement or non-improvement in parental involvement.

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