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Seghers, Marie; Boone, Simon; Van Avermaet, Piet – Educational Review, 2021
Educational transitions are crucial sites of social selection. Whereas social bias in teacher recommendations is well-established, less is known about teacher guidance in the process preceding the actual choice. Bridging the literature on social class and educational choice and home-school relations this study explores classed patterns in the…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Interaction, Social Class, Parent Teacher Conferences
Prins, Esther; Stickel, Tabitha; Kaiper, Anna – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2019
This study used qualitative data to analyze how fathers in a rural Pennsylvania prison were involved in their children's literacy, learning, and education before and during incarceration and through the Read to Your Child/Grandchild (RYCG) program. Before RYCG, most fathers took steps such as reading to children, teaching reading and math,…
Descriptors: Fathers, Rural Areas, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
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Potter, Carol – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2016
Father involvement in education has been shown to result in a range of positive outcomes for typically developing children. However, the nature of paternal involvement in the education of children with disabilities and especially autism has been under-researched and is little understood. This study aimed to explore the nature of the involvement of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fathers, Children, Autism
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Cheung, Cecilia Sin-Sze; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
This research examined the idea that children's parent-oriented motivation underlies the benefits of parents' involvement on children's engagement and ultimately achievement in school. Beginning in the fall of 7th grade, 825 American and Chinese children (mean age = 12.73 years) reported on their parents' involvement in their learning as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Student Relationship, Parent Participation, Student Motivation
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Inglis, Gillian – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2012
The efficacy of parents' meetings in primary schools in the UK is an area in need of research. This article uses an approach informed by grounded theory to explore the experiences and satisfaction of parents, teachers and pupils regarding bi-annual meetings to discuss pupil progress. A two-phase approach was utilised, with diary-interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Parent Teacher Conferences, Elementary School Teachers
Place, Tamara J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research has shown that parental involvement is an important component of students' academic achievement, yet in rural areas, such involvement may be difficult to attain. The purpose of this collective case study was to investigate the perceptions of parents of young elementary students in a rural school district regarding their role in…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Rural Schools
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Eng, Sothy; Szmodis, Whitney; Mulsow, Miriam – Elementary School Journal, 2014
The role of social capital (parental beliefs, social networks, and trust) as a predictor of parental involvement in Cambodian children's education was examined, controlling for human capital (family socioeconomic status). Parents of elementary students (n = 273) were interviewed face to face in Cambodia. Teacher contact scored highest, followed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Beliefs, Parent Attitudes
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Christensen, Kathleen; Schneider, Barbara; Butler, Donnell – Future of Children, 2011
Most working parents face a common dilemma--how to care for their children when they are not in school but the parents are at work. In this article Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider, and Donnell Butler describe the predictable and unpredictable scheduling demands school-age children place on working couples and single working parents. The…
Descriptors: Working Hours, School Schedules, Employees, Job Satisfaction
Woodruff, Geneva – Exceptional Parent, 1980
The transdisciplinary approach to the education of handicapped preschool children involves frequent meetings between team members and parents. The meetings address the areas of assessment, diagnosis and goal setting, planning and program implementation, and evaluation of both the program and the child. (PHR)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Disabilities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Parent Conferences
Pellegrino, Joseph – Education Canada, 1973
Parents should be involved at all levels of the school system according to their interests and capabilities. (Editor)
Descriptors: Parent Conferences, Parent Participation, Parent Role, Parent School Relationship
Harvard Family Research Project, 2010
A growing body of evidence suggests that family engagement matters for student success. Research shows that family engagement improves school readiness, student achievement, and social skills. Furthermore, an increasing number of innovative approaches to education leverage and connect the many settings and times in which children learn and grow to…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Parent Teacher Conferences, Academic Achievement, Parents
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Perrone, Vito – Urban Review, 1971
Defines the concept of comprehensive high school, reviews the inadequac
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Parent Conferences, Parent Participation, Parent Responsibility
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Barnum, Barbara; Megenity, Jack – Educational Leadership, 1973
By having workshop participants involved in verbalizing, valuing, and decision-making processes concerning human sexuality, the author feels that the parents of pre-teenagers and teenagers, are better able to understand the scope and focus of sex education in schools and churches. (GB)
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Conferences, Parent Education, Parent Responsibility
Tomczyk, Mary M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The creation of productive home-school relationships has been recognized as important in children's school success; however, in many teacher education programs, parent-teacher conferences may be the primary--and sometimes only--interface prospective teachers have with parents prior to graduation. This study considers how a group of 22 prospective…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Conferences, Teacher Role, Discourse Analysis, Teacher Educators
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Chandler, Louis A. – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1979
Parents, especially those responsible for exceptional children, will often attempt to change their belief system dissonance. This dissonance can be changed by altering cognitions, modifying behaviors, or by avoiding dissonance-increasing situations. By being aware of these potential reactions to the parent conference, counselors can better handle…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship
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