Education and the Family
Parental Involvement Practices in the Home and School
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Around the world, education is regarded as an institution which can substantially aid individuals, providing them with the knowledge and skills they will need to obtain jobs, achieve financial success, and lead better lives. Across virtually all family relationships, there is an inseparable connection between education and the family. This volume of Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research is a broad examination of this correlation.
The second of two connected volumes, Education and the Family: Parental Involvement Practices in the Home and School features diverse theoretical and methodological chapters which explore the interactions between two crucial institutions: the family and education system. With enormous implications for determining life outcomes, this rich edited collection on the role the impact on familial engagement and involvement in the home. Chapters cover a wide array of topics, such as: family emotional support for students, family stressors and education, gendered nature of parental support, cultural variation in parental engagement and involvement, among others.
Education and the Family: Parental Involvement Practices in the Home and School is appealing reading for scholars of family sociology, the sociology of education, and childhood and youth alike.
Chapter 1. Personal and Social Development of Children in the Online Space from the Perspective of Slovak Parents; Gabriela Šarníková
- Chapter 2. Addressing Gender and Advanced Degrees: The Educational Gradient in Time Spent in Childcare for Mothers and Fathers from 2012-2021; Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, Anne K. Johnson, and Ahmed Almousa
- Chapter 3. Attending School while Living at Home: Increased Inequalities among College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic; Soo-Yeon Yoon, Jiwon Choi, Analyn Mapoy, and Kaleena Wong
- Chapter 4. Building Efficient Parents-School Collaboration in Norway: A Focus on Immigrant Parents’ Voices; Ruta Zabityte Andreassen, Natallia Bahdanovich Hanssen, and Mariya Riekkinen
- Chapter 5. Home Based Parental Involvement: Intersections of Gender, Childcare, Families and the Economy in Post-Socialist Romania; Irina Elena Ion, Raluca Popescu, and Laura Grünberg
- Chapter 6. Samoan Perspectives on Children and Education; Epenesa Esera and Kuinileti Lauina Viliamu
- Chapter 7. Family and Sexual Education: "They are from the Devil". Scandal, Rejection, and Progress in the New Textbooks in Mexico; Maricela Guzmán Cáceres
- Chapter 8. Child-Centered Relatedness and Parents’ Care Work in Education in Singapore; Kristina Göransson
Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. His research interests include parent-child relationships, mate selection, marriage, and fertility.
Timothy J. Madigan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, USA. He specializes in quantitative research on education and family and has fielded a series of state-wide social policy surveys. He has taught, researched and traveled extensively across China and Taiwan.