An Evaluation of the Interviews between Teachers and Parents about School and Family Cooperation in Preschool Education Institutions

Abstract

The primary aim of this study is to determine teachers and parents’ views about schoolfamily cooperation at the first level of early childhood education. To this end, 180 parents and 35 teachers from 9 early childhood education schools in Çanakkale city centre were included in the study. Questionnaires, designed especially for this study were used for data collection. The reliability (The Cronbach’s Alpha) of the questionnaire was 0.82 and 0.76 for teachers and parents respectively. Data were analyzed by means of a frequency and percentage analysis. As a result, it has been indicated that teacher-parent meetings are carried out accordingly.