Fare i compiti a casa con i genitori: riflessioni per la prassi educativa e didattica degli insegnanti

Abstract

Consistently with the notion of “family-school partnership”’, parents’ involvement in school life, particularly in homework, has recently increased. Teachers have access to homework in the school context, when they assign it and then, once it is completed, when they correct it. But what happens when homework “enters the home”? How do parents take part in this activity? Based on the analysis of 62 homework sessions videorecorded in 19 Italian families, and focusing on ordinary parent-child interaction, the article illustrates three practices through which parents take part in the homework activity: 1) organizing the material space and regulating homework time; 2) engaging in learning activities typical of the school context; 3) evoking the standards and values ​​of the school. By showing how parents can support their children during homework, this study promotes teachers' reflexivity about this activity and, more generally, about parental involvement in the school.