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How Parents Engaged and Inspired Their Young Children to Learn Science in the Later Years: A Story of 11 Immigrant Parents in Australia
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Kewalramani, Sarika; Phillipson, Sivanes; Belford, Nish – Research in Science Education, 2022
Parents' beliefs, values and associated everyday practices can play an influential role in their children's educational environment. This paper reports on a subsection of data from a larger qualitative study on how immigrant parents' cultural beliefs, values and everyday practices contributed to shaping their young children's early engagement in…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Influence, Young Children, Science Education
Children's Cognitive Ability and Their Academic Achievement: The Mediation Effects of Parental Expectations
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Phillipson, Sivanes; Phillipson, Shane N. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
It is generally accepted that cognitive ability predicts academic achievement, and that parental involvement and expectations form part of the constellation of factors that predict their children's academic achievement, particularly for families within the Chinese-heritage Cultures. Although a number of interactions between these parental factors…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models
Context of Academic Achievement: Lessons from Hong Kong
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Phillipson, Sivanes – Educational Psychology, 2009
Vygotsky speculated that parents play an important role in the intellectual development of their children, and that this role includes the transfer of expectations related to their children's academic achievement. Consequently, different parents can produce different contexts of academic achievement for their children. The participants were 215…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Parent Aspiration, Elementary School Students