Supporting parents to provide safe, nurturing and stimulating environments to their children is of utmost importance to empower families. Strengthening parents’ roles as co-educators is also a cornerstone of establishing collaborative partnerships in early and primary education.

ISOTIS has the objective of collecting research evidence and expert knowledge on best practice in supporting diverse culturally and linguistically families to provide informal education and a safe, healthy, nurturing and stable environment to their children. To achieve this objective, our team proposes to:

– Create an inventory of proven or potentially effective approaches to support parents and families.
– Select promising approaches based on this inventory for in-depth studies, to identify effective characteristics, and to generate concrete recommendations for development and implementation.
– Develop a Virtual Learning Environment prototype (with information, activities and materials), that can be used by children and parents, teachers and other professionals, to support the use of home-based first language, and enhance the parent-school partnerships.

ISOTIS expects to provide practical knowledge, guidelines for development and concrete tools for wider implementation of effective programs for families.

Read ISOTIS PUBLICATIONS on parent and family-focused support