An Investigation into Effective Ways to Involve Ethnic Minority Parents to Enhance the Chinese Learning of Their Children ()
ABSTRACT
Parent involvement has been found to be vital to children’s school
success, as such, it is important to find ways to engage parents in students’
learning activities, especially for those who came from culturally diverse background.
This paper presents the concepts of parent involvement and uses a case as an
exemplar to
capture the
facilitating factors for involving an ethnic minority (EM) parent for enhancing the Chinese
learning of her child in the Hong Kong context. Qualitative results showed that successful factors for engaging EM parents
include: having high learning motivation, good program elements (such as employing
the pleasurable learning elements, being culturally sensitive), the establishment
of a first language-like environment, and being empowered. Future directions
for education and social service sectors for engaging EM parents are also
discussed.
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Tse, S. , Tsui, P. , To, H. , Wu, K. , Laing, V. and Lam, L. (2021) An Investigation into Effective Ways to Involve Ethnic Minority Parents to Enhance the Chinese Learning of Their Children.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
9, 137-150. doi:
10.4236/jss.2021.92009.