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Ho Sui-chu (Abstract) Decentralization movement that seeks greater parental in volvement in education has been taking hold in western countries over the past thirty years.In Hong Kong,Education Commission recommends that all schools should implement school-based management by the year 2000 as a means to better meet the needs of their students.This decentralization reform has already brought the issue of parental involvement to the attention of policy-makers,practitioners,as well as researchers.This paper is an attempt to examine the relation between the current educational reform and parental involvement.First,two important yet contrastion approaches to the current reform were delineated.Second,the nature of parent empowerment under decentralization policy was anatomized.Third,the author attempted to synthesize the policies and practices of parental involvement in the local context.Finally,based on the findings of the past and on-going home school studies,seven different types of parental involvement were idenitfied and there were discussions on how parents,teachers and school administrators could be involved to achieve quality education. |