Amid the intensifying phenomenon of educational "involution," parental anxiety regarding education has become a widespread social issue, prompting parents to engage in reflection and adjust their educational strategies accordingly. This paper, framed by Archer's reflexivity theory, employs the method of digital ethnography to examine the…

There is increasing concern regarding widespread educational anxiety in China, driven by significant investments of money, time, and effort made by parents in their children's education. This study investigates the phenomenon of rising parentocracy in China and its relations to educational anxiety among middle-class parents, based on in-depth…

The current era is one of the periods in human history when the phenomenon of migration is at its highest level. Individuals leave the countries they live in and settle in different countries for economic, security or different demographic reasons. Like all Western European countries, Switzerland has provided labour force from countries such as…

This study examines the impact of the deviation between parents' educational expectations and children's educational expectations on children's health. This study based on the data from Chinese Family Panel Studies conducted in 2018 and 2020, The participants were 2340 children aged 10-15 years (1310 boys, 1030 girls) in China. We found that when…

This study uses survey data from 12,548 parents in seven major cities in mainland China, including 5,850 middle-class parents. Through differential analysis, path analysis, and quantile regression, it examines the relationships between meritocratic educational beliefs, achievement expectation gaps, and educational anxiety. The findings reveal that…

This study examines the complex nature of educational anxiety among middle-class parents in contemporary China, particularly in the context of the "Double Reduction" policy. Through in-depth interviews with sixteen middle-class parents in Nanjing, our research explores how socio-economic changes, policy impacts, and parental responses…

After the implementation of "double reduction" policy, parental education anxiety becomes a hit subject in the society. Aimed to figure out formation logic and countermeasures of it, this paper adopts literature survey method, through numerous researches, discovers that on the one hand, the policy has comprehensively standardized cram…

Today it is generally known that digital tools suitable for enriching education can benefit and hinder teaching-learning. To understand the reasons behind students' behavior, one must take an ecological approach to digital education. It would be misleading to think that only teachers experience difficulties; Digital education raises many questions…

While the lack of educational opportunities limits the future of most people in Ethiopia, they pose dire consequences to young people in migration hotspot areas. Using input-process-outcome-context-education quality framework, this study investigated the quality of education in eight migration hotspot areas of Ethiopia and its association with…

South Africa, a country that suffered from discriminatory practices in the past, is still feeling the impact of these practices currently. One of these practices limited access to educational institutions, particularly for children experiencing barriers to learning. The focus of this article is on parents' perceptions of barriers to learning as…

This poll was conducted between August 2-6, 2024 among a sample of 2,252 Adults. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of Adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region. Results based on the full survey have a measure of precision of plus or minus 2.32 percentage…

Safety remains a key concern for parents and education policy makers. Homeschooling opponents argue that child abusers use homeschooling to isolate and harm their children while public school teachers and administrators, as mandatory reporters, reduce child maltreatment. Supporters of homeschooling argue that public schools expose children to…

The purpose of this study is to understand the story underlying the preference of parents (mothers-fathers) for home school in Turkey and to determine the main points in this story. For this purpose, this study was conducted according to the narrative study model, one of the qualitative research designs. Within the context of this study, the…

The article addresses the way in which characteristics of the education crisis in the postmodern era are manifested in parental deliberations when choosing to homeschool their children in Israel. Based on a review of the characteristics of the education crisis and examination of possible solutions, homeschooling is presented as an optional…

Parents, students and school communities have been forced to respond to the COVID-19 crisis in unprecedented ways. What are their reactions to the responses by school districts and state officials to this crisis? How has this affected their feelings about state government and how are families faring as they face challenges like distance learning?…