Education and the Family: Parental Involvement Practices in the Home and School

Sampson Lee Blair (Curatore)

Timothy J. Madigan (Curatore)

Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025

Around the world, education is regarded as an institution which can substantially aid individuals, providing them with the knowledge and skills they will need to obtain jobs, achieve financial success, and lead better lives. Across virtually all family relationships, there is an inseparable connection between education and the family. This volume of Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research is a broad examination of this correlation. The second of two connected volumes, Education and the Family: Parental Involvement Practices in the Home and School features diverse theoretical and methodological chapters which explore the interactions between two crucial institutions: the family and education system. With enormous implications for determining life outcomes, this rich edited collection on the role the impact on familial engagement and involvement in the home. Chapters cover a wide array of topics, such as: family emotional support for students, family stressors and education, gendered nature of parental support, cultural variation in parental engagement and involvement, among others. Education and the Family: Parental Involvement Practices in the Home and School is appealing reading for scholars of family sociology, the sociology of education, and childhood and youth alike.

• Curatore: Sampson Lee Blair, Timothy J. Madigan
• Editore: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Collana: Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 216 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 666 gr.
• EAN: 9781836628910

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