Parental Engagement: Why Parents in Russia Choose Homeschooling and What Problems They Have to Solve

Abstract School education has immense role for the better future of a country. However, schools such as in a developing, country like Nepal face many barriers in demand creation as well as quality in classroom delivery. Students enter the school with mental stress and family problems. This restricts the educational outcome of schooling. Social entrepreneurship (SE) is an alien idea still in most schools in Nepal. By this venture, School social entrepreneurship can help the students and society to detect the skill of life which changes their life standard in future. It helps students to be regular in school, improve their health and ultimately bring change in overall educational achievement. In contrary to this, because of students poor economic condition they are neither able to have proper breakfast nor lunch which leads to sleepiness and inability to concentrate in the class room. Hence their learning outcome is poor. Following a Participatory Action Research (PAR) paradigm, the first author spent more than a year with rigorous field engagement in Janajivan Secondary school at Chitwan district of Nepal in order to understand the context and real need of SE. The school has own building and enough land where opportunity to develop entrepreneurship activities with the concept of 'supporting livelihood of parents through SE' approach. To dig out the reasons, We used informal talk, focused group discussion, observation and interview with teachers, students, community members, school management committee and parents. The study finding indicates that lack of time, teacher's fear of commercialism, impeding educational structures and sustainability were some of the challenges integrating SE in school. Experiential earning and learning based activities can be practiced in school outside the classroom. Having SE at school with parental involvement can be innovative pedagogical approach in school education of Nepal. Key messages Entrepreneurship linking with health education. Promote livelihood with entrepreneurship by participatory action research.

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Parental Engagement of a Prototype Electronic Diary in an Ambulatory Setting Following Adenotonsillectomy in Children: A Prospective Cohort Study

Children ◽

10.3390/children8070559 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (7) ◽

pp. 559

Author(s):

Tobial Mchugh ◽

Karen A. Brown ◽

Sam J. Daniel ◽

Sharmila Balram ◽

Chantal Frigon

Keyword(s):

Health Care Providers ◽

Response Rate ◽

Text Message ◽

Parental Engagement ◽

Ambulatory Setting ◽

Outpatient Basis ◽

Care Providers ◽

Electronic Diary ◽

Pain Diary ◽

Post Operation

Adenotonsillectomy is performed in children on an outpatient basis, and pain is managed by parents. A pain diary would facilitate pain management in the ambulatory setting. Our objective was to evaluate the parental response rate and the compliance of a prototype electronic pain diary (e-diary) with cloud storage in children aged 2–12 years recovering from adenotonsillectomy and to compare the e-diary with a paper diary (p-diary). Parents recorded pain scores twice daily in a pain diary for 2 weeks post-operation. Parents were given the choice of an e-diary or p-diary with picture message. A total of 208 patients were recruited, of which 35 parents (16.8%) chose the e-diary. Most parents (98%) chose to be contacted by text message. Eighty-one families (47%) returned p-diaries to us by mail. However, the response rate increased to 77% and was similar to that of the e-diary (80%) when we included data texted to the research phone from 53 families. The proportion of diaries with Complete (e-diary:0.37 vs. p-diary:0.4) and Incomplete (e-diary:0.43 vs. p-diary:0.38) data entries were similar. E-diaries provide a means to follow patients in real time after discharge. Our findings suggest that a smartphone-based medical health application coupled with a cloud would meet the needs of families and health care providers alike.

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School Reform and Parental Engagement Learning in the United Kingdom

10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1678 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Janet Goodall

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

School Improvement ◽

School Reform ◽

21St Century ◽

Parental Engagement ◽

Reform Movements ◽

Early 21St Century ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Wide Range ◽

Per Se

Parental engagement in children and young people’s learning has been shown to be an important lever for school improvement and young people’s outcomes. However, parents are rarely involved in school reform movements. These reform movements are generally centered on the school rather than on improvement of learning per se. Shifting the focus away from the school and to learning as an overarching aim requires the inclusion of and partnership with parents. This is a new way of understanding school reform but has the best chance of supporting all students, including those not best served by the schooling systems in the early 21st century. The reforms here are chiefly concerned with U.K. schooling systems, but could be more widely applicable, and call on a wide range of evidence, from the United Kingdom and beyond.

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Covid 19 and Stress among Students

Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.52711/2321-5828.2021.00043 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 239-244

Author(s):

L. Vijayashree ◽

Shishira Srinivasa

Keyword(s):

Stress Management ◽

Eating Habits ◽

Traumatic Event ◽

Parental Engagement ◽

Student Stress ◽

The World ◽

Inadequate Sleep

In today's culture, there are numerous factors that may act as a stress catalyst, making stress a big aspect of one's life. Covid-19 has wrought tremendous havoc all over the planet. Stress isn't just an issue for adults; it's also growing more common among children of all ages. Proper stress management is incredibly difficult to achieve since parents do not have the time to adequately care for their children. Most people assume that stress can only be caused by a traumatic event, but the fact is that tension may also be caused by a good experience. There are numerous causes of student stress that can lead to stress in a student's life, including misbehavior between the student and the teacher, which can lead to increased tension and stress. A lack of parental engagement also led in attacks on all pupils. Children in general do not pay attention to their eating habits, making them more vulnerable to stress in general. Inadequate sleep is also a source of stress, and students all over the world suffer as a result. Students' capacity to manage stress is hit or miss.

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Using Behavioral Insights to Improve School Administrative Communications: The Case of Truancy Notifications

Educational Researcher ◽

10.3102/0013189x211000749 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0013189X2110007

Author(s):

Jessica Lasky-Fink ◽

Carly D. Robinson ◽

Hedy Nai-Lin Chang ◽

Todd Rogers

Keyword(s):

Parental Engagement ◽

Randomized Experiment ◽

Randomized Experiments ◽

Parental Efficacy ◽

Behavioral Barriers ◽

The Impact

Many states mandate districts or schools notify parents when students have missed multiple unexcused days of school. We report a randomized experiment ( N = 131,312) evaluating the impact of sending parents truancy notifications modified to target behavioral barriers that can hinder effective parental engagement. Modified truancy notifications that used simplified language, emphasized parental efficacy, and highlighted the negative incremental effects of missing school reduced absences by 0.07 days in the 1 month following compared to the standard, legalistic, and punitively worded notification—an estimated 40% improvement over the standard truancy notification. This work illustrates how behavioral insights and randomized experiments can be used to improve administrative communications in education.

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Parental Engagement and Early Childhood Education Around the World

10.4324/9780367823917 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Susanne Garvis ◽

Sivanes Phillipson ◽

Heidi Harju-Luukkainen ◽

Alicja Renata Sadownik

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Parental Engagement ◽

Childhood Education ◽

The World

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Parents’ Career Values, Adaptability, Career-Specific Parenting Behaviors, and Undergraduates’ Career Adaptability

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000018808215 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 46 (7) ◽

pp. 922-946 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yanjun Guan ◽

Zhen Wang ◽

Qing Gong ◽

Zijun Cai ◽

Sabrina Lingxiao Xu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Parental Support ◽

Parenting Behaviors ◽

Parental Engagement ◽

Work Life ◽

Work Life Balance ◽

Survey Study ◽

Career Adaptability ◽

Life Balance ◽

Career Values ◽

Negative Effect

This study examined how Chinese parents’ career values and adaptability predict their career-specific parenting behaviors and their children’s career adaptability. We conducted a survey study with Chinese university students and their parents ( N = 264), and found support for the mediating roles of career-specific parenting behaviors in linking parents’ vocational characteristics and children’s career adaptability. Specifically, parental support is positively related to parents’ intrinsic fulfillment values, work–life balance values, and career adaptability. Moreover, parental support mediates the relationship between these variables and undergraduates’ career adaptability. Parental engagement mediates the negative effect of external compensation values and positive effect of work–life balance values on undergraduates’ career adaptability. Parental interference is negatively related to parents’ work–life balance values, and positively related to their external compensation values and career adaptability, but does not significantly predict undergraduates’ career adaptability. These findings advance current understanding of the career construction theory.

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