This qualitative grounded theory study delves into the profound impact of the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic (COVID-19) on Black working mothers, shedding light on its consequences on their pursuit of education and mental well-being. While prior research has explored the effects of COVID-19 on Black working mothers, this study focuses on the…

Presently, fathers spend more time with their children when compared with the fathers of previous ages and play compromises the majority of the father-child shared time. Few researches that investigated the roles of fathers during their play with children made use of (1) home-based or laboratory-based observations with pre-determined play…

Parent-adolescent conflict seems to be common when adolescents negotiate power with their parents. Forum theatre (FT), an interactive and participatory theatre form, is recommended as a community-based intervention to assist Chinese parents in managing the challenges of parent-adolescent interaction. FT proposes that solutions to daily struggles…

The engenderment of children's education requires the interplay of several factors with parental involvement as a key ingredient in the educational experience. However, some parents' participation in their children's education has been found to be low in both rural and urban communities alike. This has led to the loss of the positive effects…

Purpose: The democratic constitution that came into effect in 1994 and ushered in the new South Africa recognises parents' role in education hence the established of an innovative school governance structure of which parents are in the majority. Before then, there existed parents--teachers association in schools. Its members were handpicked and…

Research on parental educational involvement has been organized into three overarching domains--home-based involvement, school-based involvement, and academic socialization. Conventional empirical work in these domains typically centers involvement strategies around White, middle-class experiences rather than examining how optimal parenting…

Educational transitions are crucial sites of social selection. Whereas social bias in teacher recommendations is well-established, less is known about teacher guidance in the process preceding the actual choice. Bridging the literature on social class and educational choice and home-school relations this study explores classed patterns in the…

The relationship between a parent and a teacher can be fraught with difficulties because of role conflicts that may result from the negotiations that occur between them. We synthesized recent perspectives drawn from the research literature on parent-teacher relationships with that of role theory, and aim to demonstrate how the current research…

Relations between mind-mindedness (assessed using the describe-your-child interview) and stress were investigated in parents of children with developmental disorders (ADHD, n = 51, ASD, n = 23, Down's Syndrome, n = 38, and 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome, 22q11.2DS, n = 32) and typically-developing children (n = 89). Mind-mindedness did not differ…

Homework is considered a major means for connecting learning processes at school with the home/family sphere. This qualitative study illuminates parents' engagement in their children's homework by exploring: (1) parents' and teachers' perceptions of homework goals and characteristics; and (2) the types of parental help-giving with homework. Using…

Parent involvement has become very important in successful children's education. The activities showing parent involvement can not be separated from lifelong education. Therefore, the focus of this research is was on non-formal and informal education in achieving one of the sustainable development goals. Then, this study described parent…

Pursuing a college degree--and the open future for young adults it is believed to secure--anchors what it means to be middle class in the United States today. Acting on the conviction that the rising generation can and should do better than their parents is a middle-class inheritance, and getting young adults to and through college is at the heart…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) parents of students receiving special education transition services describe involvement experiences, cultural values that influence involvement, and school interventions for parent involvement in the state of Texas. Hirano and Rowe's…

Early interventions for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can increase the success of children diagnosed with ASD by preparing them academically and socially for school, which has lifelong benefits. The general problem is that despite the known benefits of early intervention, many children do not receive services or even diagnoses at an early age.…

Using an economically and culturally diverse sample of 451 children and their parents from the Family Life Project, this study explored mothers' and fathers' language engagement as measured by a latent construct of parents' wh and non-wh questions and conversational turns with their 24- to 36-month-old children. Differences between mothers' and…