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14 SES 10, Parent and Teacher Cooperation
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Contribution
For every person spiritual atmosphere of the family is essential. From birth to death, human life is connected with a family which promotes the processes of identity formation and self-realization of an individual. The family provides important features for personal development – nurturing, training and education, guardianship and care, social and psychological security to adapt to difficult life circumstances. Change in the political system, which took place in the countries of Central Europe about two decades ago (1991), influenced many aspects of social life. New liberal ideologies, which are widely proclaimed in post-conflict societies, are based primarily on the idea of economic rationality, which leads to irreversible changes in traditional attitudes, values and behavior that arise from social roles (Shevchyk, 2006). Such changes are also very essential in such spheres as marriage and family. The worst was connected with the fact that in public consciousness, the struggle for economic status shadowed the importance of compassion and caring and the dictatorship of force substituted any possibilities for peaceful ways of solving problems, disconnectedness of people replaced close family ties, ethnic connections and identifications (Slany, 2002).
Anomic signs of social mobility of a family can be observed at the level of motivations to work by family members. Still 5-8 years ago, a major factor of the Ukrainian family poverty was unemployment (Dichevsky, 2007). Today, low wages do not allow families to cross the poverty line. This pushes fathers and mothers to find work outside of Ukraine. The worst thing that the biggest participants of immigration (often illegal) are young women, mothers (Lavrinenko, 1999). Returning home, they often encounter their family ruins: children suffering from drug addiction, alcoholism, detachment, conflicting immediate family members and others. Deformed understanding by many migrant workers the values of family, career, health is strengthened by the specificity of state politics. According to various statistics, currently about 5—7 million people emigrated from Ukraine in search of work (Lipovskaya, 2000). The factor of readiness of Ukrainian youth to emigrate is bothering. Moreover, a wife and a husband are ready to allow each other to stay in working migration for years. Especially the processes of emigration are hurting rural families. For example, in Western region of Ukraine most members of rural families immigrated, these are young women of 25 - 27 years old, most of them mothers (Skotna & Stets, 2007).
The main research question of this research includes the analysis of the psychological structures of students’ narratives regarding the values of the Ukrainian family. More specifically, the study seeks to define the essence of the transformation of values and principles of the Ukrainian family under the influence of globalization and migration evident from students’ narratives. By exploring the attitudes of youth to the values of "fatherfood" and "motherhood" via narrative analysis, the researchers were particularly interested in the visions of the participants about the past, present and future of the Ukrainian family, as well as the specificities of gender roles in the family.
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