scholarly journals Low-Income Black Parents Supporting Their Children’s Success through Mentoring Circles

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. CI93-CI117
Author(s):  
Alana Butler
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Black Parents ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Black Parent

This article presents the results of a parent engagement project called “Mentoring Circles.” The project focused on the needs of low-income Black parents who have children enrolled in the Toronto District School Board. Two focus groups, with seven to eight Black parents in each group, were conducted during the summer of 2018. The study drew on theories of community wealth and funds of knowledge (González et al., 2005; Yosso, 2005), Black feminist theory (Collins, 2000; Crenshaw, 1991), and critical race theory (Delgado & Stefancic, 2012). The Black parent narratives served as counter-stories to stereotypes about Black parent disengagement in low-income communities. The low-income Black parents in the study were very engaged in their children’s education and were invested in their academic success. The Black parents strategized to support their children’s education by forming supportive peer mentoring networks and advocating for their children though relationship-building. The findings suggest that mentoring circles could serve as a model for engaging Black parents in the support of their children’s academic success. Keywords: Black Canadian children and youth, anti-Black racism, Black parents and students, low socio-economic status, race and ethnicity, social class

scholarly journals The Influence of Social Class on Family Participation in Children’s Education: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador R. Vazquez ◽  
Patricia M. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Family Participation ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education

Parental involvement in children’s education is commonly accepted as beneficial. However, family social class plays a crucial role in the efficacy of homework help. In a comparative case study, a low-income immigrant family from Mexico and a middle-income family in Los Angeles were observed helping their children with math homework and were asked questions about goals, tutoring strategies, and beliefs about learning. Qualitative analysis focused on two effective teaching methods: scaffolding and productive struggle. The low-income mother with little formal education provided direct help rather than a scaffold, and disapproved of hard problems. However, an older sibling with more education than her mother used scaffolding and believed that difficult problems aid learning. In these respects, she resembled the college-educated middle-income mother. The sister exemplifies how older siblings in immigrant families provide bridges to educational achievement for younger siblings. We suggest effective ways for schools to involve parents who lacked educational opportunity themselves to participate in the education of their children.   How to cite this article: Vazquez, S. R., & Greenfield, P. M. (2021). The Influence of Social Class on Family Participation in Children’s Education: A Case Study. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 30(1), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.15446/rcp.v30n1.89185

scholarly journals What Research Tells Us about How Trust Is Built in Kindergarten and Why It Is Important for Children’s Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Xingyun Fang
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Trust Relationship ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Child Centered ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Social Achievement ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
The Relationship

This paper mainly describes how to build a trust relationship in kindergarten and why trust is so important for children’s education. As the relationship between teachers and parents is becoming more and more tense, the relationship between teachers and teachers is becoming more and more independent (Tschannen-Moran, 2014)[57]. The trust relationship has a profound impact on children’s academic and social achievement (Bryk and Schneider, 2002)[5]. Therefore, the establishment of the trust relationship is of vital importance in kindergartens. The whole article can be divided into three parts: what, why and how. What is trust first, mentioned a few scholars understanding of trust and understanding? The second part is why trust is important in kindergartens and the factors influencing trust are mentioned. The third part is the focus of this paper, how to do to build trust in kindergarten. This article mentions five solutions, including hiring good leaders; advance step by step according to the order of establishing trust relationship; building a culture of trust in schools; building trust between parents and teachers, teachers and students, and teachers and teachers; using the teaching method adopts the child-centered teaching mode.

Parental Incarceration and Children's Educational Attainment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Carolina Arteaga
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Parental Incarceration ◽  
Random Assignment ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Standard Framework

Abstract This paper presents new evidence showing that parental incarceration increases children's education. I collect criminal records for 90,000 low-income parents who have been convicted of a crime in Colombia, and link the educational attainment of their children. I exploit exogenous variation resulting from the random assignment of judges, and extend the standard framework to incorporate both conviction and incarceration decisions. I show that the effect of incarceration for a given conviction threshold can be identified. My results indicate that parental incarceration increases educational attainment by 0.78 years for the children of convicted parents on the margin of incarceration.

Secrets of Success: Uncertainty, Profits and Prosperity in the Gari Economy of Ibadan, 1992–94

Africa ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mimi Y. Wan
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Personal Wealth ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Food Economy ◽  
Ibadan Nigeria

AbstractCompetition, success and secrecy are fundamental characteristics of the local food economy of Ibadan, Nigeria. With the growth of the processed cassava, or gari, trade throughout this area, these characteristics are revealed in a number of contexts in the food trade. Traders and shopkeepers circulate their wealth and plough profits back into a range of trading items to obscure their exact economic status from other traders and their families. Success in this context entails secrecy in a number of respects. In relation to buyers in the gari trade, secrecy entails the obfuscation of whether the trader deals retail or wholesale, what she is worth in terms of food stocks and her personal wealth. Successful traders also invest their earnings in social celebrations, in their children's education and in personal homes that all work to foster and enhance their social status and validate their wealth.

Making It Work: Low-Income Working Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 879-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather B. Weiss ◽  
Ellen Mayer ◽  
Holly Kreider ◽  
Margaret Vaughan ◽  
Eric Dearing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Working Mothers ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education

scholarly journals PERSEPSI MASYARAKAT PETANI KELAPA TERHADAP PENDIDIKAN TINGGI ANAK DI KECAMATAN SIBERUT BARAT, KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
A. Tisnawati Tapondhadhai ◽  
Ansofino Ansofino ◽  
Ranti Nazmi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Good System ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
Good Relation

Education is one of social institution that has important role to enhance prestiges and human's dignities. Education helps people to build a good relation each others. Higher education usually indicate better social life. Therefore, parents have the responsibility to their children's education. Government also have responsibility to make a good system that agree with development of various fields. Coconut farming communities generally have low income, but they have good motivation to send their children to university.This study aims to know  the motivation of farmers to provide a better education for their children and also some of  factors that influences their successful studies. Based on this study, to get a better social life than their parents is the motivation of coconut farmers that their children get higher education. Meanwhile, the success rate of farmer's son graduated depending on the favorable situation to supporting them to learn better and also good financial supports from their families during the studiesPendidikan merupakan suatu lembaga sosial dalam membentuk individu dalam bersosialisasi untuk meningkatkan harkat martabat manusia. Pendidikan merupakan tanggung jawab masyarakat sebagai orang tua dan pemerintah, maka itu pendidikan perlu menyesuaikan dengan tuntutan pembangunan yang memerlukan berbagai jenis keterampilan dari berbagai bidang. Masyarakat petani kelapa pada umumnya memiliki penghasilan yang rendah, akan tetapi mereka memiliki motivasi yang kuat agar anak-anak mereka bisa mengecap pendidikan sampai ke Perguruan Tinggi.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui motivasi petani untuk memberikan pendidikan yang lebih baik untuk anaknya dan juga beberapa faktor yang mempengaruhi keberhasilan dari anak petani untuk mewujudkan cita-citanya tersebut. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, ditemukan bahwa motivasi petani ingin anaknya mengecap pendidikan hingga perguruan tinggi adalah agar anak mereka memperoleh kehidupan yang lebih baik. Sementara itu, faktor yang mendukung keberhasilan anak petani dalam menyelesaikan pendidikan mereka di perguruan tinggi adalah situasi kondusif yang mendukung mereka untuk belajar dengan lebih baik dan juga dukungan ekonomi yang baik dari keluarga selama menempuh pendidikan. 

scholarly journals Parents Attitude toward Education among Muslim

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Huma Hilal
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Variable ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The People ◽  
Children’S Education

Education is one of the major instruments of social change and it is the force, which brings changes in the traditional outlook of the people, and it develops insight for judging things in their context. It is assume that more the percentage of educated people more will be the rate of development.  As all we say that Education of a girl is like educating a family while educating a boy is merely educating a person. The importance of female education in a society and its spreading to all section of the life is well appreciated and documented to solve existing and emerging problems of the society. There is ample evidence that children from better educated parents more often go to school and tend to drop out less (UNESCO, 2010). Parents who have reached a certain educational level might want their children to achieve at least that level (Breen & Goldthorpe, 1997). For educational enrolment of girls, education of the mother might be especially important (Emerson & Portela Souza, 2007; Shu, 2004; Kambhampati & Pal, 2001; Fuller, Singer and Keiley, 1995). Mothers who have succeeded in completing a certain level of education have experienced its value and know that it is within the reach of girls to complete that level. The present research was aimed at assessing attitude of parents toward education among Muslim.  Sample consists of 100; in which 50 male respondents and 50 female respondents were participated in the present research. Parents’ attitude was measured through Questionnaire consisting 23 items which is developed by Patnaik & Samal (2012). The respondents were required to indicate their agreement or disagreement with each of the statements about children’s education in a four-point Likert type scale, where 1 denotes strong disagreement and 4 denotes strong agreement. Mean scores were calculated separately for male and female respondents and high socio economic status and low socio economic status samples. The t test was used to examine the significance of difference between male and female respondents as well as high socio economic status and low socio economic status with regard to their attitude towards children’s education. The findings showed that the overall attitude of the respondents was moderately favourable and positive towards education of their children. This result was discussed in the light of existing findings and with other demographic variable i.e. education of the parents, income of the parents and number of children.

scholarly journals Survival Strategy for Lokan Seekers in Paya Pasir Village, Kec. Marelan, Medan, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramadani Lubis ◽  
Ichwan Azhari ◽  
Ratih Baiduri
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Survival Strategy ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Structural Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Children’S Education

This study dealt with Survival Strategy for Lokan Seekers in Paya Pasir Village, Kec. Marelan, Medan, Indonesia. This situation explains that the number of women in poverty is still high. The high rate of poverty involving women certainly does not happen on its own, there are many things that must be explored and investigated and discussed about what factors make women and poverty as difficult to reduce and eliminate. The research used was qualitative research with an ethnographic approach. Spradley (1997: 3) argues that ethnography is the work of describing a culture. The main purpose of this activity is to understand a view of life from the perspective of the native population. In result, For parents, especially those who have a low income level, it should make children's education the first, because to improve the standard of living can only be done with education. Good children's education will produce changes in life. Besides that, a child should not be taught or supervised in fulfilling the family's economic needs, so that the child can be more focused in taking his education. With this education, a child can compete in the world of structural work, so as to reduce poverty as in the area of Paya Pasir Village.

Involving Low-Income Parents in the Schools: Communitycentric Strategies for School Counselors

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0701100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Van Velsor ◽  
Graciela L. Orozco
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
Children’S Education ◽  
The Relationship

Low-income parents participate less in schools than higher-income parents despite the benefits of parent involvement. Barriers that low-income parents face suggest that schools must develop a new approach to engaging these parents. School counselors can play a leadership role in strengthening the relationship between schools and low-income parents by implementing community-centered strategies for parent involvement. These strategies respect community culture and parents’ abilities to contribute to their children's education.

Race in Place: Black Parents, Family–School Relations, and Multispatial Microaggressions in a Predominantly White Suburb

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linn Posey-Maddox
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Racial Microaggressions ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Black Parents ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
School And Community ◽  
Children’S Education

Background Research has demonstrated the importance of understanding the multiple factors that shape parents’ relationships with schools, including the resources parents have at their disposal, their own educational histories, and the influence of school cultures and policies. Less is known, however, about how parents’ engagement relates to their everyday experiences across school and community spaces, particularly for Black parents in nonurban, predominantly White settings. Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine Black parents’ school and community experiences in a predominantly White suburb and how their experiences and engagement may vary based on social class and gender (and their intersections). Participants A socioeconomically mixed sample of 56 Black parents (16 men, 40 women) with children in Grades K–7 participated in the study, as well as 2 longtime residents whose children attended district schools. Research Design The findings are based on an ethnographic study of Black family–school relationships in a predominantly White Wisconsin suburb. The data include semi-structured parent interviews; field notes taken in monthly districtwide African American Parents (AAPO) meetings; an analysis of district and AAPO documents related to district resources, demographics, academics, and family engagement; and an analysis of census and demographic trends in the suburb and the broader county. Findings Results reveal that parents supported their children's education in a variety of ways, and most parents valued the resources and opportunities the suburban district and community context provided their children. Yet parents described experiences with racial microaggressions in their interactions with school officials and community members. These microaggressions were often classed and gendered, and, for a number of parents, relived and reinforced in their children's schools. The results reveal both the everyday racism Black parents encountered in the predominantly White suburban community and school district, as well as the dynamic ways they navigated, resisted, and sought to change barriers to Black student and family success. Recommendations The research findings suggest the utility of educators recognizing the often racialized arenas many Black parents traverse in their everyday lives, legitimating parents’ alternative forms of engagement, and building on what parents are already doing to support their children's education and well-being. Given the growing number of students of color in suburban districts, educational researchers have both an opportunity and responsibility to engage in studies that interrogate urban-focused frameworks and explore the intersections of race, class, gender, and place in families’ experiences.

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