Parental Involvement in Education

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

While all five papers in this panel fall under the broad heading of parental involvement, each study approaches the topic in unique and important ways. With contexts ranging from the United States to China, the studies use varied methodological approaches, including an intrinsic case study, a longitudinal qualitative study, and statistical analyses of large datasets. The students in the papers range from those in an early childhood classroom to young adults making the transition to college. In one paper, parental involvement is the outcome; another focuses on perceptions of family-school partnerships; the third considers parental involvement’s effect on school disciplinary practices; the fourth explores parenting values and educational investment; and the last demonstrates that familial involvement cannot be simplified into a unidirectional parent-to-child chain but rather needs to include reciprocal familial care. Together, these papers challenge what we may take for granted in parental involvement research and raise new questions about parental involvement’s role in educational processes.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of Education Section / Sociology of Education Section Open Call Paper Session

Presider

• Susan A. Dumais, CUNY-Lehman College

Individual Presentations

• Gain, Vain, or Pain: Home-based Parental Involvement and Students’ Educational and Health Outcomes in China - Bing Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Wensong Shen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Hidden Boundaries: Family-School Partnerships in a Multicultural Classroom - Zhiyue Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Stephanie C. Sanders-Smith, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Punishment Avoidance in the Making: The Role of Parental Involvement in School Discipline - Guyu Sun, University of Maryland, College Park

• The Stratified Power of Beliefs: Parenting Values, Social Class, and Educational Investment in Contemporary China - Fan Zhang, Shanghai University; Jingjing Wang, Nanjing University

• To Not Be a Worry: How Latina Daughters Use Invisible Emotion Work during College Transitions - Leslie Patricia Luqueño, Stanford University

Discussant

• Estela B. Diaz, Princeton University

Session Organizers

• Susan A. Dumais, CUNY-Lehman College

• Fithawee Tzeggai, University of Kansas

• Faith Ann Couts, University of California-Irvine