Parental Involvement and Education Development in Nepal

Abstract

Schools, families, and community groups are an essential factors to work together to support learning in schools, family and community.  Children tend to do better in school, stay in school to learn something and they like schools when there is a child friendly environment with parental involvement.  Even INGOs and NGOs are working on children, family, community people for their entire change in their day to day life. Mainly, schools are involving parents to earn higher grades, test scores, school’s enrollment programs, showing promotion in result of students and money led from parents. The culture and train is going as teachers are just in school, parents are just in family and people are just in community but the reality should be parents, teachers and people must be connected with schools, family and community.  However, this article highlighted the important of parental involvement for betterment of children in schools, community and family and the reality of parental involvement in schools for child development, their improvement in learning, role of parents, teachers, school management committee, the government of Nepal, INGOs and NGOs and challenges for parental involvement in education.

Keywords: Parental involvement, education, performance, monopoly.