Let Them Talk! Exploring Students’ Experiences of Parental Involvement in Education in Taiwan

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Listening to Voices Across Contexts in Family, School, Community Partnerships (Table 22)

Abstract

In most studies of parental involvement, students are regarded as passive recipients of their parents’ involvement actions or school programs. As active agents, students do influence the process of parent involvement. The purpose of this study was to explore parent involvement through students’ perspectives. The study adopted the phenomenological research method. Thirty students from grades 1-12 were invited as research participants using purposive sampling techniques. The types of data collected include intensive interviews, field notes, and memos. Reflexive thematic analysis was performed to capture patterns across the data. The results of the study construct two themes: one is “multiple practices of parent involvement perceived by students,” and the other is “mixed feelings about parent involvement among students.”

Author

• Pi-Ju Wu, National Changhua University of Education