Abstract

MERCADO MALDONADO, Ruth  and  MONTANO SANCHEZ, Leticia. Participative Processes Involving Preschool Teachers and Mothers in Teaching Activities. RMIE [online]. 2015, vol.20, n.65, pp.347-368. ISSN 1405-6666.

This article, derived from ethnographic research, identifies participative processes involving teachers and mothers in activities related to teaching in a Mexican preschool. The sociocultural perspective of analysis is centered on the concept of participation to explain the contributions of teachers and mothers in the classroom. The participative processes presented assume that teachers include mothers in making decisions, share the purposes of their pedagogical proposals with mothers, and incorporate the mothers' contributions into the organization of their teaching. The results relativize the generalizations that tend to be made about the distance between teachers and parents in school life, and particularly in the classroom. Although such a distance exists, diverse processes such as those shown here are also present.

Keywords : preschool education; family/school relationship; teaching; teachers; family participation; Mexico.