The purpose of the course is to provide a comprehensive account of the nature and impact of family-school-community (FSC) collaboration in education. The course will examine the relationship between family, school, and community for children’s education, parents empowerment and school improvement. For the past two decades, growing evidence shows that parents are valuable but largely untapped resources for the field of education. In Hong Kong, FSC collaboration is of particular interest to policy makers and educators because it
may have considerable potential to address three major problems in public education: scarcity of resources; rigidity of bureaucracy; and quality and inequality of educational outcomes. The course will help participants understand how to obtain higher and better participation from all families regardless of their background and how to enhance the inclusive attitude of educators (including teachers, social workers, etc.) in order to address the diverse needs of parents and their children.