Relational Aspects of Parental Involvement to Support Educational Outcomes

Offering contributions from international leaders in the field, this volume builds on empirically informed meta-analyses to foreground relationship-based aspects of parental involvement in children's education and learning. Chapters explore how factors including parent-child communication, cultural and parental expectations, as well as communication with a child's teacher and school can impact educational outcomes. By focusing on relationships between parents, teachers, and students, chapter authors offer a nuanced picture of parental involvement in children's education and learning. Considering variation across countries, educational and non-educational contexts, and challenges posed by parental absence and home schooling, the book offers key insights into how parents, schools, communities, and educators can best support future generations. Using multiple forms of research from the relational perspective, this volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers with an interest in educational psychology as well as child development.

William Jeynes is Professor of Educational Foundations at California State University at Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, U.S.A.

Section I: Parental Involvement Research at a Deeper and Broader Level 1. A Theory of Parental Involvement Based on the Results of Meta-Analyses 2. Parental Engagement: Problems, Possibilities and Pandemics 3. Fathers and Daughters: The Lifelong Impact of Involved Fathering 4. Demand for Education Transformation and 21st-Century Skills for All Children: The Role of Parental Perspectives in System Transformation 5. Parental Involvement in the Lives of Children of Color: Drawing from the Results of Meta-Analyses 6. How Religious Communities Become Proxy Families in Achieving Offender Rehabilitation and Restorative Justice 7. "If Corona Doesn't Kill Us, Distance Learning Will": Parental Involvement in Remote Learning during Covid-19 Section II: Parental Involvement around the World and in Unique Contexts 8. Parental Involvement in the UAE and in Other Moderate Arab States 9. Parental Involvement and Goverance in Dutch Schools 10. Parental Involvement and Substance Use in Africa and the United States 11. Parental Involvement in East Asia and the United States among Children with Special Needs 12. "The Hausvater Should Teach It to the Entire Family": Parental Involvement in German Families, 1520-2020. Section III: Parental Involvement in Practice 13. A Home-to-School Approach for Family Engagement Research and Practice with Young Children in Foster Care 14. Building Productive Relationships with Families and Communities: A Priority for Leaders to Improve Equity in Their Schools 15. The Myth of "Authenticity" 16. Talent Development of Artists and Scientists: The Importance of Parental Involvement and Home Factors 17. On a Journey to Purposeful Pathways: Building Educator Capacity to Engage Families 18. Parental Involvement in Schools of Choice: The Interdependence of Parents and Schools