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Weijuan Wu; Xuelin Yang; Yehui Lao – SAGE Open, 2025
This article uses survey data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS2015) to test whether the educational level across three generations are transmitted within families and whether number of grandparents' children influences these intergenerational transmissions in China. We obtain evidences that the educational level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Generational Differences, Longitudinal Studies
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Karen Guo – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
The significance of family involvement in early childhood services has been recognised as crucial for enhancing the educational outcomes of young children, particularly among those from minority and immigration backgrounds. Extensive research has been conducted on collaborative practices between immigrant parents and early childhood communities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Immigrants
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Yuan, Yanyue; Wu, Linhui – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2021
Introduction: The ageing world gives rise to changing family structures, as well as the way different generations interact with each other. While research on intergenerational relationships and intergenerational learning have started as early as in the 1960s and 1970s in North America and Europe, little is known about scholarly discussions in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Learning, Grandparents
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Alice Chik; Jill Murray – ELT Journal, 2024
Migrant families often invite grandparents to move to Australia when babies are born. In order to provide support to their families, many of these grandparents have to retire from their own professional careers and migrate to Australia to start new lives. Some speak English as an additional language, with or without formal education, prior to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Grandparents, Parent Child Relationship, Quality of Life
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Daisy Binfang Wu – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This article presents an ethnographic case study of pre-service teachers' transformative learning in a Culture-Writing course at a Chinese university. In recounting three stories with fieldwork data gleaned from moments of students' pre-class discussions, reflective writings, and reports on term-paper projects, this study showcases how a group of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Transformative Learning, Writing (Composition)
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Zhang, Heyi; Jiang, Liyun; Hong, Xiumin – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The present study examined the mechanisms by which family environment, parent--grandparent coparenting, effortful control, and early child-care experiences influenced young children's social adaptation in the Chinese context. A sample of 315 mothers of 2-3-year-olds (M = 33.36 months; SD = 5.10) in Beijing, China completed questionnaires to report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Child Care, Family Environment
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Su, Hui; Gong, Hailing; Llewellyn, Gwynnyth; Liu, Jinxia; Yi, Yali; Gao, Yaqian – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2023
Background: Families of children with developmental disabilities face extraordinary changes in their life circumstances and needs that require adaptations to create sustainable and meaningful daily routines. The present study explored the adaptation of Chinese families of children with developmental disabilities from an ecocultural theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Developmental Disabilities, Family Environment
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Ying, Yumjyi Ji – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
State schooling is currently transforming Tibetans' perceptions and everyday experiences in Western China. Based on interviews with rural Tibetan parents and grandparents, and using subjectification as an analytical concept, this paper argues that schooling, alongside socio-economic changes, powerfully shapes the subjectivities of Tibetan parents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Family Attitudes, Rural Schools
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Yan, Weili; Siegert, Richard J.; Zhou, Hao; Zou, Xiaobing; Wu, Lijie; Luo, Xuerong; Li, Tingyu; Huang, Yi; Guan, Hongyan; Chen, Xiang; Mao, Meng; Xia, Kun; Zhang, Lan; Li, Erzhen; Li, Chunpei; Zhang, Xudong; Zhou, Yuanfeng; Shih, Andy; Fombonne, Eric; Zheng, Yi; Han, Jisheng; Sun, Zhongsheng; Jiang, Yong-hui; Wang, Yi – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
The recent adaptation of a Chinese parent version of the Autism Spectrum Rating Scale showed the Modified Chinese Autism Spectrum Rating Scale to be reliable and valid for use in China. The aim of this study was to test the Modified Chinese Autism Spectrum Rating Scale for fit to the Rasch model. We analysed data from a previous study of the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Parent Attitudes, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Wu, Ming-Hsuan; Opstad, Sonna L. – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2021
The challenges for immigrants in the US and Canada include the difficulties of making a living while raising their children. Due to the high cost of living and childcare in cities, along with the realities of low paying jobs and long working hours among many working-class immigrants, growing numbers of families send their infant children to their…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Culturally Relevant Education, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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Lyu, Keyi; Xu, Ying; Cheng, Hao; Li, Jiacheng – International Review of Education, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many grandparents in China have spent more time with their grandchildren than they used to. When their adult children returned to work after a period of lockdown, many grandparents extended their roles from taking care of household tasks and looking after their grandchildren's basic needs to supervising their online…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Distance Education
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Luo, Na; Van Heel, Martijn; Van Leeuwen, Karla – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
In China, both parents and grandparents play an important role in child-rearing. However, it is unclear whether parenting behaviors reported by early adolescents, parents, and grandparents are comparable. Therefore, this study investigated (a) cross-generational validity of reporting (grand)parenting behavior based on perspectives of adolescents,…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Grandparents
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Sun, Qian; Lou, Vivian Weiqun; Law, Ben M. F. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Purpose: This study examined the development and validation of the Effectiveness Scale of Child Familial Influencing Behavior. This measurement is constructed to evaluate the effectiveness of child familial influencing behaviors within three-generational relationships. Methods: The effectiveness of child familial influencing behaviors was rated by…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Child Behavior, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Zheng, Yuzhu; Maude, Susan P.; Brotherson, Mary Jane; Merritts, Ashley – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2016
Research highlights the importance of early childhood intervention (ECI) for children with disabilities, and there is an increasing interest in China with respect to research on ECI. However, little research exists exploring the experience of families of young children with disabilities receiving ECI services and supports in China. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Disabilities, Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries
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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan; Wang, Weihong – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
As a linguistically heterogeneous nation, China has 290 languages and nearly 2000 distinct "fangyans" (dialects or subdialects) with "Putonghua" as the national language. These languages and language varieties are hierarchically ranked, based on their wider communicative and socioeconomic values. This paper reports on how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Language Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese
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