Attitudes of parents of primary school pupils towards homework

Autor	Michaela Mervartová
Organisation	Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Ústav pedagogických věd
Year	2013
Research type	master thesis
Annotation	This thesis deals with Attitudes of parents of elementary school pupils towards homework. The thesis has three parts: the first part deals with relevant theory necessary for understanding of the topic. The author describe what a homework is and its functions. Next, she deals with parental help with homework (i. e. relations between school and the family, parent's opinions on homework and their role in their children's homework). Theory is the key for subsequent analysis of data about parent's attitudes towards homework. The second part of the thesis aims at description of the methodology of quantitative research and the last part contains the analysis of the collected data. The author describes what are the opinions of parents are about what a homework is and how their ideas about helping their children with homework differs. She also introduces the parent's opinions on the function of homework and their competency in helping with their children's homework.
Keywords	homework, function of homework, parental attitudes to homework, relationship between school and family, elementary school
Research type	quantitative
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Obor	AM Pedagogy, education
Email	pedagogika@phil.muni.cz
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Organisation	Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Ústav pedagogických věd
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