Parents Role In Curriculum Development

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1.0 Introduction
Alvior (2014) defined curriculum development as a planned, purposeful, progressive, systematic process to create positive improvements in the educational system, which helps to address the need of the society and the stakeholders. The process of creating the positive improvements in the educational system can be challenging, hence it requires the input of different stakeholders such as teachers, parents and school administrators. Jadhav and Patankar (2013) also mentioned the involvement of all the stakeholders as the planner, designer, manager, implementer, evaluator, researcher, decision-maker and supporter are vitally essential to ensure the effectiveness of the curriculum development.
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This is because parents are the closest individuals who know the children better. Therefore, in the curriculum context, parents’ involvement as the co-implementers and supporters in curriculum development is important in order to enhance the students’ learning as well as to shape their behaviours. According to Taylor (2013) students with parents who are involved in their school tend to have better academic performance and fewer behavioural problems in school. This proves that parents have great impacts and influences on their children’s …show more content…

The school claimed that the money will be used for the school maintenance. Regarding this issue, in Malaysia Budget 2017, the government has allocated RM600 million of Special Fund for improvement and maintenance of schools to avoid such problem from re-occurring. As a result, it was reported by Mahdzir in the Bernama article, published on 11thApril2017, about 92 per cent of 10,180 schools exceeded the target of 65 per cent parents ' presence and involvement in school activities, including PIBG. This shows that parents are now aware that their involvement in the curriculum development is important.

3.0 Conclusion
In conclusion, the role of stakeholders is vitally essential in curriculum development to ensure its effectiveness. Every stakeholder plays a different role as the implementer, supporter and many more, but at the end they aim for the same goals. Hence, it can be concluded that a mutual cooperation among the school administrators, teachers, and parents is needed in order to shape a brighter younger generation in education and to create a positive impact on the educational

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