Unpacking Korean American Families' Parenting Beliefs and Practices: Foundations for Authentic Partnership, Advocacy, and Beyond

• In Event: Partnering With Immigrant Families and Communities

Abstract

A positive home-school relationship is well documented to be essential for young children’s development and learning. Nonetheless, growing attention on standardization of early educational experiences, typically under the name of quality assurance, in the United States has left many parents and communities of non-Western mainstream backgrounds with uneasiness and anxiety about justifying their parenting beliefs and practices. This study is aimed to explore and illustrate how Korean American families perceive and enact their culturally authentic parenting beliefs and practices. Their voices and lived experiences could be helpful for teacher and teacher educators to become more privy and sensitive about diverse families’ perspectives, overcome stereotypical images, expand their instructional considerations, and further advocate for all children and families.

Authors

• Sophia Han, University of South Florida
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• Sohyun Meacham, University of Northern Iowa
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• Jinhee Kim, Kennesaw State University
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• Su-Jeong Wee, California State University - Los Angeles
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