Our understanding of multiple goals has been advanced through the lines of research that focus on their pursuit of academic achievement goals and of academic and social goals. These prior efforts, however, are not free from conceptual and methodological limitations. To further advance the field, we put this paper together with two purposes in…

The study explores the pedagogical practices employed by ballet instructors for engaging boys in ballet. Inclusive practices for gender non-conforming children in ballet are also considered. Four ballet instructors shared their experiences in semi-structured interviews. Findings indicate that male-focused strategies in both recruitment and…

Since the introduction of the HPV vaccine in Chile in 2014, there have been few studies exploring parental perspectives on the vaccine or on adolescent sex and sexuality education, and even fewer exploring fathers' perspectives. Subsequent to an earlier study of Chilean mothers' attitudes towards the HPV vaccine and adolescent sexual health and…

Background: It is widely understood that children who enter foster care are likely to have had previous traumatic experiences which can affect many aspects of their lives, including their ability to thrive at school. In order to better support the educational needs of children who are fostered, deeper insight needs to be gained into the…

Sixty-nine children (20 with cerebral palsy (CP)) and their mothers participated in a joint writing activity. Children (M age = 64.56 months; SD = 7.07 months) wrote a four-item grocery list on a keyboard at home with their mothers. Mothers who had children with CP generally provided a lower level of graphophonemic (i.e., segmenting words into…

Online platforms are increasingly the main point of contact between schools and students, families, and the community. In this article, we present a framework, called "Flipping the Script," that we developed while researching how students, teachers, and families were portrayed on school websites. Based on a systematic analysis of nearly…

The present study examines the mediating role of parental burnout in the relationship between students' behavior problems and academic outcomes and whether this mediating process is moderated by parents' self-compassion (PSC). This study was designed according to a cross-sectional study model, and includes 821 Vietnamese primary students…

In today's world, young people attending high school face many developmental challenges and need a holistic examination of their developmental process, with both positive and negative aspects. Desired outcomes for healthy youth development include individual character strengths such as the strength of love and the contextual characteristics of…

Young children develop understandings about literacy from birth through experiences of print in their home environments. Today, written text is often present in children's homes in both print and "digital" forms. What kind of technologies are young children accessing at home and for what purposes? This paper discusses research findings…

Despite the recognized importance of parent engagement, schools often fail to meaningfully engage parents. One approach to help remedy this issue would be to surface educators' beliefs and cognitive maps which inform parent engagement practices. These influential values and belief systems within an institutional field, known as logics, offer a…

Young students' undetected anxiety and depressive symptoms may develop into bigger psychological issues in adulthood. Anxiety and depression are the leading contributors to childhood psychological illness (Finning et al., 2019). Students who are struggling emotionally may have difficulty achieving academic success. Schools and educators play a key…

Although the benefits of family-school partnership are clear, secondary schools struggle to successfully realise this partnership. Drawing on interview data from Dutch parents of secondary school students, this study aims to explore underlying structures of family-school partnership and opportunities for improvement. We defined family-school…

In this qualitative study, I examined the perspectives of public elementary school parents/caregivers on their definition of a positive school climate and what factors add to or detract from a positive school climate. For this study, I define school climate as the norms, beliefs, and expectations held by teachers, students, school staff and…

Historically, gender norms have allowed faculty who were men to remain an ideal worker by being dedicated to work regardless of family status because they had a wife to keep up the domestic and childcare duties (Tierney & Bensimon, 1996; Wolf-Wendel & Ward, 2006). Although both men and women have served as faculty members and parents, the…

Most research on the mental health of fathers with children on the autism spectrum has been cross-sectional. Little is currently known about the trajectories of fathers' mental health across their parenting journey. Using longitudinal latent class analysis, this study aimed to: (1) report on the estimates of fathers' psychological distress across…