caa a22 4500 46575712X CHVBK 20180323111850.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01110629 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01110629 Goldring Ellen Program in School Administration, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Ramat Aviv, Israel aut Principals' relationships with parents: The homogeneity versus the social class of the parent clientele [Elektronische Daten] [Ellen Goldring] Parental participation in schools has become a goal for many principals in light of theoretical and empirical work suggesting that increased school-parent interaction can result in significant educational benefits. This study examined the principal-parent relationship in three types of schools: those serving a homogeneous high-SES parent clientele, a heterogeneous middle-SES parent clientele, and a homogeneous low-SES parent clientele. The main question posed in this paper is whether the principal-parent relationship in schools with a heterogeneous parent clientele differs from the relationships in homogeneous schools, regardless of social class, or whether social class is the determining factor in the principal-parent relationship. Discriminant analysis of 250 elementary school principals indicated two significant functions: one according to the social class of the parents and the other according to the homogeneity of the parent clientele. The differences in the relationships, as suggested by the significant discriminating variables, are in the areas of parental involvement, the organization of parent groups, and principals' response strategies to this involvement. The results suggest how principals interact with different types of parents to capitalize on areas where parents can help without allowing excessive interference in the school's functioning. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1990 The Urban Review Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 22/1(1990-03-01), 1-15 0042-0972 22:1<1 1990 22 11256 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01110629 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01110629 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Goldring Ellen Program in School Administration, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Ramat Aviv, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Urban Review Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 22/1(1990-03-01), 1-15 0042-0972 22:1<1 1990 22 11256 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer