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Zhou, Xiaochen; Li, Jia; Jordan, Lucy P. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
Despite China being a major source country of international students, factors associated with Chinese parents' intent for children to study abroad remains under-investigated. Inspired by a Bourdieusian framework, this study examined whether parental desire for children's international education can be delineated by family background, while…
Descriptors: Parent Aspiration, Academic Aspiration, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
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Marôco, João – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Using hierarchical linear models, this study probes into student, family, teacher, and schools' variables that can explain the variation in Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 results. Students' confidence in reading, early literacy tasks, and parents' expectations are the strongest explanatory variables of reading…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, International Assessment
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Silver, Blake R.; Lopez, Freddy; Kalaivanan, Tharuna; Krietzberg, Lily – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2021
This qualitative study explores how second-generation immigrant (SGI) college seniors experience and navigate their final year of college. Drawing on Schlossberg's theory of transitions, we analyze in-depth interviews with 34 SGI seniors. Emergent themes include: (a) perceptions of the senior-year transition, (b) challenges finding and using…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Student Characteristics, Student Experience, Immigrants
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Zhang, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2021
This paper reviews a total of 20 empirical research studies concerning parents' behavior under the context of high-stakes language assessment, aiming to reveal the impact of the assessment on parents' behavior. The results show that (1) parents are typically involved in high-stakes language assessment process; (2) their involvement practice…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, High Stakes Tests, Language Tests, Parent Child Relationship
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Mahmud, Rafsan – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2021
Privatization, marketization, investment, and competition of education have become a global phenomenon with significant implications. While research on demand and patterns of shadow education are increasingly available across the world, very little is known about the scope of parents' investments, family burden, and students' workload. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Education, Tutoring, Family Involvement
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Woodhouse, Joan; Guihen, Laura; Scalise, Maria – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2022
This paper reports on a study in which we interviewed eleven student teachers who were mothers. We wanted to understand the challenges the women faced in combining Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and motherhood, and about the factors that sustained them through the course. Participants faced practical and emotional challenges, including financial…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Mothers, Barriers, Emotional Problems
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Ann E. Roemer – Language and Education, 2024
This research, conducted at a major university in Tanzania, investigated the personal experiences of multilingual students vis-à-vis the government's language policy requiring Swahili as the language of instruction (LoI) at the primary level and English at the secondary level. The participants, who spoke 25 different languages as their L1, were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, African Languages, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes
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Anneleis Humphries; Catherine Smith; Julie Choi – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia face numerous barriers to successful tertiary education. One key challenge is developing critical literacy skills beyond basic language proficiency. Critical literacy empowers students to understand power relations, critique underlying assumptions and explore issues of belonging -- factors crucial…
Descriptors: Refugees, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Peter J. Guarnaccia – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education presents an in-depth understanding of how immigrant students at a major public research university balanced keeping their family cultures alive and learning U.S. culture to get to college. A revitalized anthropological understanding of acculturation provides the theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Immigration, Student Diversity, Higher Education, Research Universities
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Olaug Strand – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
The "optimism hypothesis" claims that immigrant students do better in the Norwegian education system than their socioeconomic status would suggest, due to the strong educational aspirations that immigrant parents might have for their children. Grounded in an educational equity paradigm, this study aims to test this hypothesis by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests, Grade 4
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Yang, Miaoyan; Zezhen, Jiayong; Yuan, Zhenjie; Yue, Dan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This paper explores the complexities behind the educational decisions of Tibetan parents on sending their children to the interior cities for dislocated secondary education. Drawing on qualitative data through multiple methods, we find that their educational decisions are driven both by a rational calculation of the benefits and costs and by a…
Descriptors: Parent Aspiration, Parent Attitudes, Secondary Education, Decision Making
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Song, Kwangok – Reading Teacher, 2023
As children of immigrants are increasing in number across the U.S. classrooms, schools need to develop strategies to engage with immigrant families. Structural and attitudinal issues in the school system create challenges in communicating with immigrant parents. Immigrant parents have high expectations for their children's academic achievement…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Aspiration, Parent Child Relationship, Educational Strategies
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Li, Xiaojie – Journal of International Students, 2023
As the US-China geopolitical tensions escalated, this study sought to investigate how Chinese students respond to the political circumstances when making their post-graduation plans. Drawing from interviews among 15 Chinese international students who graduated from a US university, this study found that most Chinese students did not change their…
Descriptors: International Relations, Foreign Students, Asians, Foreign Countries
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Smetackova, Irena; Stech, Stanislav – European Journal of Education, 2021
The article presents results of a survey among parents of primary-school pupils, in which they commented on education during school closures due to the COVID-19 disease pandemic in the spring of 2020. The questionnaire mapped family arrangements, parents' competencies, parenting practices concerning learning, and communication with the school. It…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Elementary School Students
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Peacock, Huw; Prehn, Jacob; Guerzoni, Michael A.; Aitken, Wendy; Andersen, Clair – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2020
This paper argues that a component of increasing the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and youths completing their secondary education is having parents and teachers maintain heightened expectations of these children in achieving this goal. To understand this phenomenon, we investigate the importance of, and discrepancies…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders, Secondary School Students, High School Graduates
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