Table Of ContentRelational 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 in Long Beach and the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton,
U.S.A.
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Parental Communication, Expectations, and Participation for Student
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Relational Aspects of Parental
Involvement to Support
Educational Outcomes
Parental Communication, Expectations,
and Participation for Student Success
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Contents
Preface viii
Acknowledgments x
About the Editor xi
Contributors xiii
Introduction xx
SECTION I
Parental Involvement Research at a Deeper and
Broader Level 1
1 A Theory of Parental Involvement Based on the Results
of Meta-Analyses 3
WILLIAM JEYNES
2 Parental Engagement: Problems, Possibilities and Pandemics 22
JANET GOODALL
3 Fathers and Daughters: The Lifelong Impact of Involved
Fathering 39
LINDA NIELSEN
4 Demand for Education Transformation and 21st-Century
Skills for All Children: The Role of Parental Perspectives in
System Transformation 60
MAHSA ERSHADI AND REBECCA WINTHROP
5 Parental Involvement in the Lives of Children of Color:
Drawing from the Results of Meta-Analyses 80
WILLIAM JEYNES AND RENÉ ANTROP-GONZÁLEZ
6 How Religious Communities Become Proxy Families in
Achieving Offender Rehabilitation and Restorative Justice 102
BYRON R. JOHNSON
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7 “If Corona Doesn’t Kill Us, Distance Learning Will”:
Parental Involvement in Remote Learning during COVID-19 121
DICK M. CARPENTER II AND JOSHUA M. DUNN
Section II
Parental Involvement around the World and
in Unique Contexts 137
8 Parental Involvement in the UAE and in Other
Moderate Arab States 139
AYMAN HEFNAWI AND WILLIAM JEYNES
9 Parental Involvement and Governance in
Dutch Schools 159
WENDY NAYLOR
10 Parental Involvement and Substance Use in Africa and
the United States 169
TARA WILFONG AND ROBERT GRAND
11 Parental Involvement in East Asia and the United States
among Children with Special Needs 183
CAMILLE GYNSUN LEE AND WILLIAM JEYNES
12 “The Hausvater Should Teach It to the Entire Family”:
Parental Involvement in German Families, 1520–2020 202
FRED W. BEUTTLER
SECTION III
Parental Involvement in Practice 219
13 A Home-to-School Approach for Family Engagement
Research and Practice with Young Children in Foster Care 221
JULIE SEGOVIA AND CHRISTINE M. MCWAYNE
14 Building Productive Relationships with Families and
Communities: A Priority for Leaders to Improve
Equity in Their Schools 244
KENNETH LEITHWOOD
15 The Myth of “Authenticity” 263
CHARLES L. GLENN
Contents vii
16 Talent Development of Artists and Scientists: The Importance of
Parental Involvement and Home Factors 287
SUSAN J. PAIK, LINDSEY T. KUNISAKI, VINH Q. TRAN, AND
IRAISE E. GARCIA
17 On a Journey to Purposeful Pathways: Building Educator
Capacity to Engage Families 311
MARGARET CASPE, VITO J. BORRELLO, AND REYNA HERNÁNDEZ
18 Parental Involvement in Schools of Choice: The
Interdependence of Parents and Schools 329
DANIEL HAMLIN
Index 351
Preface
Relational Aspects of Parental Involvement to Support Educational
Outcomes: Parental Communication, Expectations, and Participation for
Student Success takes readers’ thinking about parental involvement to
the next level. This is an edited collection of contributions from leaders in
the field of parental involvement that build on the findings from six meta-
analyses previously completed by the editor to foreground the subtle,
relationship-based aspects of parental involvement. These components of
parental involvement include supportive and informative communica-
tion, parental expectations, parental style, reading with one’s children,
communication with the teacher and school, and partnership with the
teacher. These leaders include individuals that collectively have spoken
and advised for U.S. and foreign government leaders dozens of times,
have served in government positions, and have highly cited academic
articles and books. The chapters include academics who received their
education or are affiliated with some of the world’s leading universities or
what is often regarded as the leading think tank in the United States
(Brookings Institution). They have presented these ideas and data analy-
ses at some of the world’s leading universities, e.g., Oxford, Harvard,
Columbia, Cambridge, Duke, and Imperial College.
This book therefore examines parental involvement at a deeper and
broader level than virtually any book of its kind and illustrates what these
relationship-based aspects of parental involvement look like in practice.
As a whole, the book develops the concepts of parental involvement
named above, identified on the basis of meta-analyses. This is in contrast
to most of the theories on parental involvement that are dated and based
largely on observations (e.g., Epstein & Conners, 1992). The chapters
address vital issues in parental participation that are seldom addressed
sufficiently in other books on this topic. For example, how does parental
involvement factor in when helping children with special needs, examin-
ing family engagement within a historical context, and how do expres-
sions of parental involvement need to change in the 21st century,
Preface ix
particularly with the advent of the coronavirus? Other issues considered
include what school leaders can do to better involve parents generally and
fathers specifically, and whether other institutions can take on parental
roles in lieu of mothers and fathers. This book also examines parental
involvement practices in North America, Europe, East Asia, Africa, and
the Middle East. It is a comprehensive work and I trust you will enjoy
reading this book and reap many benefits from its contents.
