Parental Involvement on Children’s Education: What Works in Hong Kong (SpringerBriefs in Education)

This book is based on the empirical work of a large-scale project to investigate the possible impacts of diversified forms of parental involvement on children and school by first exploring through a series of ethnographic case studies how principals, teachers and parents perceive and act on parental involvement in the primary schools of Hong Kong and, then, examining how the different forms and levels of parental involvement are related to individual and institutional factors through a series of survey studies on all these stakeholders in children’s education. Finally, the book assesses the extent to which different forms of parental involvement affect student performance based on student survey results and available school records.​ Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Literature Review....Pages 1-18 Elucidating the Complexity of Parental Involvement in Primary Schools: Three Ethnographic Case Studies....Pages 19-58 Building a Grounded Theory on Parental Involvement in Education....Pages 59-89 Nature of Parental Involvement: Perspectives from Principals, Teachers and Parents....Pages 91-129 Effects of Parental Involvement and Investment on Student Learning....Pages 131-148 Conclusions and Implications....Pages 149-162 Based on the empirical work of a large scale project to investigate the possible impacts of diversified forms of parental involvement on children and school, this book explores the complexity of the phenomenon of parental involvement through a series of ethnographic case studies on how principals, teachers and parents perceive and act on parental involvement in the primary schools of Hong Kong