This is not to deny that parental activism can be contentious

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After all, there are no guarantees that parents will always fight causes that are socially progressive, as recent cases in the UK and US of parents opposing the inclusion of LGBTQ+ issues in education indicate (BBC, 2022; Feola, 2023). Yet I would caution against throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. Contra Spielman, opposition and resistance can be legitimate responses to policies or rules that are perceived unjust, even where this causes friction with educational institutions and authorities.

Rather than simply denouncing parents, we would be better served by establishing more brazil email list effective fora for them to contribute to decision-making within education. Here, educational research has a role to play, both empirically in terms of developing further understanding of parents’ concerns and theoretically by re-imagining democratic processes within the education system so that parents, as key constituents, might be more meaningfully included.

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