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Educational Value Priorities of Chinese Parents in a Global City: A Mixed-Methods Study in Hong Kong
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Direct linkTrevor Tsz-Lok Lee; Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu – Education and Urban Society, 2024
This study examines the value priorities of Chinese parents regarding their children's education in globally competitive context. Although Chinese parents are often viewed as being excessively controlling of their children and preoccupied with their academic performance, research indicates that contemporary Chinese families hold diverse beliefs…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Academic Aspiration, Global Approach, Child Development
Rodríguez-Gómez, Diana – Ethnography and Education, 2022
This article examines the future as a technique of government aimed at controlling young people's relationships to the present. It analyses the futures deemed feasible in a school located in a border area affected by the Colombian armed conflict. Based on ethnographic data collected primarily between 2013 and 2014, this study highlights the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Futures (of Society), Rural Areas, Social Mobility
Tazouti, Youssef; Jarlégan, Annette – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
The present research tests the hypothesis that parental values and educational practices are intermediary variables between the socio-economic status (SES) of families and early learning in children. Our empirical study was based on 299 parents with children in their final year at eight French kindergartens. We constructed an explanatory…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Kindergarten
Download full textRokita-Jaskow, Joanna – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
This paper reports on the qualitative part of a project investigating parental educational aspirations as manifested by enrolling their children (aged 3-6) into very early L2 instruction. The concept of educational aspirations is widely studied in educational psychology as well as in sociology and pedagogy. In SLA, these aspirations can fit in the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Efficacy
Larose, Simon; Duchesne, Stéphane; Boivin, Michel; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2015
Using a 17-year longitudinal design, this study examined the role of personal and family factors assessed early in life, and also academic and social experiences assessed in the first year of college, in predicting college completion. We followed a sample of 444 French-speaking Canadian children from middle to upper socioeconomic backgrounds (66%…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Experience, Longitudinal Studies, Socioeconomic Background
Somerville, Margaret – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
The aim of this article is to explore aspiration in contemporary urban locations in the context of almost universal policy initiatives to raise aspirations of young people to participate in higher education. The article is based on a study of how children's career and further education aspirations are shaped over time in five schools in western…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration, Foreign Countries
