Implicación de familias y docentes en la formación familiar: Involvement of families and teachers in family participation

Family training in Spain lacks normative, administrative and institutional regulation, formally constituted for that purpose. As a consequence, responsibility for this purpose is diluted and depends on the interests of the AMPA, educational centres, the Ministry of Education, municipalities and several non-profit organisations. In this article we present the results of the evaluation of the training needs of families and teachers on family-school relationships in a multicultural context, in which, responding to two homologous questionnaires, a total of 3,639 families and 225 teachers have reported information. These results indicate that families have little participation in training activities for them and that this participation decreases as their level of involvement increases. Teachers affirm that they facilitate family participation in training activities, although such facilitation also decreases as the degree of involvement increases. Also, parents of student's value high or quite other aspects of training related to family-school collaboration, increasing this assessment when it comes to teachers. Finally, more than 80% of families and teachers affirm that they are interested in receiving training in regard to family participation in the education of their children.