While studies on refugee-background students in school contexts have been prolific, research of this population in higher education or post-tertiary education is still emergent. The paper attends to this gap by drawing on the narratives of five refugee-background young adults who are undertaking Australian higher education or have completed…

Researchers have long documented the importance of parent participation in the development and success of children in schools. Parent participation is a critical component in special education programming and is embedded in special education legal requirements in the US. However, navigating special education programming has proven particularly…

This study explores the parental support first-generation Latinas have received, and recognizes the skills, knowledge, and various forms of support that Latinx parents can and have provided their daughters when they seek a college education. Through a community cultural wealth framework, this study adds to the current literature on Latina and…

Family engagement with schools has been shown to be a predictor of student success (Powell et at., 2010) and federal statute supports school/ family relationships through the Family Engagement in Education Act. For students with disabilities (SWD), family engagement may be even more critical. Unfortunately, data has suggested that family…

Coronavirus disease 2019-necessitated lockdowns were difficult for everyone, but especially so for preschoolers. The adversities caused by the pandemic, isolation, and lack of opportunities to socialize with peers greatly affected well-being and education in this age group. Therefore, during this period, many parents had to assume the role of…

Research Findings: Early elementary school is a crucial time for the development of executive functions, but less is known about the impact of parent-child narratives on executive function development in children of this age group. This study aims to investigate the influence of parental scaffolding styles in parent-child co-constructed narratives…

The purpose of this study was to examine parents' lived experiences when considering the impact of their parental involvement and parenting styles on their ethnic minority youth with disabilities, transition outcomes, and mental health. Specifically, the research sought to explore how parents' levels of engagement in their children's education may…

Over seven million children in America receive special education services yearly, meaning millions of families participate in the special education process each school year (National Center for Education Statistics, 2021). The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA (2004), required that parents and educators collaborate within the…

The purpose of the current study was to qualitatively explore the home mathematical environment across two regions in two different countries (i.e., Cuba and Mexico), replicating a qualitative study previously conducted in Northern Ireland (NI), United Kingdom (Cahoon et al., 2017). Semi-structured interviews with parents/caregivers of children…

Understanding the nature and mechanisms of early inputs' impacts on child outcomes is central to current research. Leveraging administrative data, the present study estimated a home-visiting parenting program's impacts (2,000 participating children age 3-4; 35% Black; 30% White; 32% Hispanic; 48% female). The program generated a 0.07 SD gain on…

Background: Supported decision-making may increase self-determination among adults with intellectual disabilities by encouraging and empowering them to make decisions about their lives to the greatest extent possible. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of mothers of adults with intellectual disabilities in Ireland…

Limited research has investigated the experiences of Black male school leaders in urban charter schools. This study explored the experiences of Black male school leaders and how they activated and sustained Black parent engagement in urban charter schools with a majority Black student body. The representation of Black male leadership in schools is…

A strength-based approach to childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) research highlights children's positive attributes that can support their areas of difficulty. However, research on perceptions of a child's positive attributes is understudied. Specifically, there is little research that examines strength-based perceptions of…

Overparenting is an emerging topic in parenting research and has gained increasing attention in media. Most studies have focused on adolescents and young adults in Western countries, while it remains unclear whether overparenting is related to young children's outcomes in non-Western contexts. The present study aimed to examine the mechanism by…

This article uses figured worlds to explore the limit-situations imposed by dominant narratives of home-school relationships. Through a semiotic analysis of a wall hanging in a preschool classroom, we explore what figured worlds are imagined as possible for home-school relationships. The dominant narratives implicit in these figured worlds ossify…