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Publication Date: 2019
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Home School Relations in Singaporean Primary Schools: Teachers', Parents' and Children's Views
Jones, Sally Ann
Oxford Review of Education, v45 n1 p32-49 2019
By providing descriptive evidence from an ethnographic study at three Singaporean primary schools, this paper reveals how participants in children's education perceive and account for the relations they shape between home and school. Through analyses of interview data from teachers, parents, and children, the article demonstrates the potential effects of the actions of parents and teachers on the structure of the childhoods of a particular group of nine-year-olds. Findings are that children's lives are mostly centred on their schools, which provide academic and values education. Parents, too, ascribe importance to holistic education; this, their aspirations for the future, and their attention to the individual needs of their children motivated them to agentively support their children's education at home by teaching and organising educational, sporting, and cultural activities. Therefore, home/school relations structured rather curricularised childhoods for most children in the study.
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Ethnography, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Values Education, Academic Education, Holistic Approach, Futures (of Society), Family Environment, Parents as Teachers, Team Sports, Cultural Activities, Foreign Countries, Individual Needs
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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