Browsing by Subject "maahanmuuttajavanhempi"

Goals. The theoretical framework for this research is the model of intercultural competence. Attitudes are one of its four dimensions. In this research, intercultural competence refers to those transferable skills that the teacher needs in functioning cooperation with immigrant backgrounded parents. This research aims to find out what attitudes and transferable skills class teachers have to encounter immigrant backgrounded parents. Methods. The research was done by using the qualitative study in questionnaire research. The questionnaire contained open questions that were answered by six class teachers. The answers were gathered by electronic questionnaire form from one primary school from Southern Finland and from few class teachers who were chosen by sporadic sampling. The material was analysed using material-led content analysis by categorizing it to two themes: class teacher’s attitudes to encounter immigrant backgrounded parents and class teacher’s transferable skills to encounter immigrant backgrounded parents. Results and conclusions. The research found out that some teachers felt that the lack of Finnish skills among immigrant backgrounded parents was a challenge for functioning cooperation. However, by most part, the class teacher’s attitudes were shown to be mostly positive towards encountering parents with immigrant background. Many teacher felt the cooperation with immigrant backgrounded parents the same as with other parents. The importance of teachers’ open attitudes was highlighted especially then when there were differences in parties’ cultural views. Teachers diversely aimed to create conditions for the functioning and reciprocal cooperation with immigrant backgrounded parents.