Teacher's values and parents' involvement in the teaching-learning process

In order to describe values of teachers and their relation with parents' perception about how much teachers facilitate their involvement in the teaching - learning process of children, 32 primary school teachers and 628 parents were surveyed, The Schwartz Value Survey was used with teachers, and a survey on perception about teachers, was, applied to parents. Significant differences in the parents' perception were found related with six motivational values (hedonism, power, benevolence, tradition, universalism and security). Outcomes suggest the influence of traditional practices, responsibility distribution and expected and effective teacher-parent relation types in the parent's involvement facilitation.