Abstract

How parents conceive of their role in their children’s education and how researchers and practitioners conceptualize parental involvement are significant for understanding parental involvement in education and its impact on developmental outcomes. Parental involvement in education encompasses families’ engagement at school, with teachers, at home, and with their children. Whereas schools are focused on what parents do in relation to schoolwork, parents experience their involvement as integrated into the rest of their parenting ideologies. This special issue considers a full breadth of parental involvement in education from homeschooling to involvement at school. Further, these articles focus on parents’ understanding of their role through the lens of their ethnic, racial, and cultural background and how their role evolves across developmental stages—from elementary school to college. Finally, whereas most school-based conceptualizations of parental involvement in education are focused on academic outcomes, the field is challenged to consider a broader range of outcomes and emphasize nonlinear associations between parental involvement in education and developmental outcomes.

摘要

父母如何看待他们在孩子教育中的作用以及研究人员和从业者如何概念化父母的参与对于理解父母参与教育及其对发展结果的影响具有重要意义。家长参与教育包括家庭在学校、与教师、在家中以及与子女的参与。学校关注的是家长在功课方面所做的事情，而家长则将他们的参与融入到他们其他的育儿意识形态中。本期特刊考虑了从在家上学到在学校参与的家长参与教育的各个方面。此外，这些文章着重于父母通过他们的民族、种族、和文化背景以及他们的角色如何在从小学到大学的各个发展阶段演变。最后，虽然大多数以学校为基础的父母参与教育的概念化都侧重于学业成果，但该领域面临着考虑更广泛的成果并强调父母参与教育与发展成果之间的非线性关联的挑战。