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Communication

6. Understanding the legal and institutional contexts

This submodule will help you to understand ways your country's educational regulations stimulate parental involvement more. You will be able to identify the key stages or educational levels by which the educational system is structured in your country and their basic characteristics and be more aware of the correspondence between educational levels and children's ages. It will also help you to be aware of differences and similarities of educational system and their European context. It will help you to adjust your expectations better to the educational path your child is expected to follow in further years and thus devise strategies to support your child's learning at his/her particular educational level at present and his/her progression through the educational levels in the future.