Homa Zanjanizadeh; Homa Zanjanizadeh; Majid Danaee; Mahdi Saliminejad
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This paper aims to investigate the extent and level of family participation in schools of Khorasan Razavi province in 2008 and the factors affecting the amount of family participation. This is a survey with the use of descriptive – explanatory method. Population of this research is the parents ...
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This paper aims to investigate the extent and level of family participation in schools of Khorasan Razavi province in 2008 and the factors affecting the amount of family participation. This is a survey with the use of descriptive – explanatory method. Population of this research is the parents of students in Khorasan Razavi province's schools, and sample size is 602. The results indicate that the amount of family participation in schools is low and independent variables can explain 12.6 percent of the variance of the dependent variable. The variables of parent’s economic status, trust in children, and having proper social image of participation have direct relationship with the amount of patents’ participation and the less students like their parents participate in school activities the more parents attend in the school. There is also an indirect relation between parents’ positive experience with school and their participation in schools activities. Today, the family participation in school is not considered as an opportunity for educational advancement. Therefore, the most important strategy to increase parents’ participation in schools is to increase knowledge and skills about participation.
Majid Danayi; simin Foroughzadeh; Hossein Behravan; simin Foroughzadeh
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The increasing trend of opposite-sex friendship, especially among high-school students, has raised great concerns for parents as well as Iranian officials. Notwithstanding of a dramatic growth of such a relationship in our society, its meaning is unknown for parents and officials. The present inquiry ...
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The increasing trend of opposite-sex friendship, especially among high-school students, has raised great concerns for parents as well as Iranian officials. Notwithstanding of a dramatic growth of such a relationship in our society, its meaning is unknown for parents and officials. The present inquiry has explored the meaning of having a girlfriend from the high-school male students’ perspective utilizing hermeneutic methods such as meaning analysis and interpretation approaches. Due to the epistemological nature of the inquiry, a qualitative research design was preferred. Grounded on the theoretical framework of the study, sampling was chosen purposefully while taking advantage of data saturation technique. Data were collected via in-depth interviewing approach from among of eight participants with the experience of having friendship with the opposite sex. The collected data were coded and categorized carefully in such a way to address participants’ both general and individual meanings of opposite-sex friendship Findings show that there is a shared experience of love and compassion associated with physical changes like rapid heartbeat and body mobility or strange feelings like happy pains when boys are successful in their friendships. From the participants’ point of view, the opposite-sex friendship is a transient pleasure and a perilous experience which operates as an inhibitor in the way of individuals’ progress. Communication devices like phone and cellphone found as the commonest media for contact. Unlike families and officials’ perception of the issue as a sexual matter, the opposite-sex friendship lies in other factors such as curiosity and the prettiness of the girls naturally persuading the boys in initial stages irrespective of breeding any sexual intentions in the mind. Families and officials’ unawareness of the issue and their inappropriate care might bring about irretrievable social consequences
