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Elucidating the Complexity of Parental Involvement in Primary Schools: Three Ethnographic Case Studies
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ho, Esther Sui Chu Kwong, Wai-Man |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | This chapter aims to describe the nature of parental involvement as enacted and experienced by the parents as well as induced and perceived by the principals and teachers in three primary schools. A grounded-theory approach is used to explore the different facets and manifestations of parental involvement so as to understand the underlying values and the implicit meanings different stakeholders ascribe to it (Glaser and Strauss 1967; Strauss and Corbin 1990). The practice of parental involvement in a school setting is a complex phenomenon. Given different styles of school leadership, established parent–teacher relationships and dispositions of different stakeholders, the forms of parental involvement evolved in different schools will differ. Certain forms of parental involvement tend to result from actions and interactions between and among groups of stakeholders in the education of children in contemporary society, including principals, teachers, parents and students. These actions and interactions take place in specific organizational, policy and community contexts. Table 2.1 identifies the respective contexts of the three primary schools taking part in the case studies. Table 1 Background characteristics of the three participating schools Characteristics School A School B School C School establishment year 1996 1988 1999 School size 30 classes 27 classes 30 classes School instruction time Whole-day Whole-day Whole-day School location A new town A new town A new town Students’ socio-economic backgrounda Middle-class Working-class Lower-middle class PTA/HSC team establishment year 1999 1996 2000 Level of parental participation as of 1999–2000 High Low Medium aA crude measure based on the occupation of students’ parents and the type of housing they live in |
| Starting Page | 19 |
| Ending Page | 58 |
| Page Count | 40 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-981-4021-99-9_2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9789814021982-c2.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1376263-p174681321 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4021-99-9_2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
