The role of Home-School-Community Partnership in Promoting Reading

Sami  Z. Aidalkilani

doi:10.35516/hum.v49i3.1359

Authors

Sami Z. Aidalkilani n-Najah National University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i3.1359

Keywords:

Reading, Reading habit, Lifelong learning, Home-School-Community Partnership (HSCP), Children literature

Abstract

This research discusses the importance of encouraging children to read and to root reading habit them, and the essentiality of that for the formation of knowledge society. To do that the research tackle reading as a concept and process and its cultural, educational and social dimensions; the start of the relation with book and reading and its motivation as well as its sustainability; and the importance of children literature in all of that. The research sheds light on the effective parties in this aspect; the child, the school, the family and the community and the role of each individual party. Then it discusses the home-school-community partnership (HSCP) in general and the role of such partnership in promoting reading habit towards the targeted outcome: a reader individual in the framework of lifelong learning. The research concludes by presenting examples of reading promoting activities through HSCP.

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Author Biography

Sami Z. Aidalkilani, n-Najah National University

Department of Sociology and Social Work, An-Najah National University, Palestine.

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