School counsellors' beliefs regarding collaboration with parents of students with special educational needs in Flanders : parents as partners or opposites?

Abstract: The literature shows that a good collaboration between the school and parents of students with special educational needs (SEN) is not always present. However, school counsellors must collaborate with SEN students' parents to organise guidance trajectories for their child. This article examines school counsellors' experiences when collaborating with parents of SEN students and the factors they perceive as contributing to good or difficult collaboration. Four focus groups in mainstream education (N=50) and one focus group in special education (N=14) were conducted in Flanders. A themat... Mehr ...