Abstract
Parenting holds tremendous significance in today’s world as quality parenting facilitates the development of social and emotional competence in a child. The present study explores the dual role of domestic workers as workers and parents. Domestic Workers work from dawn to dusk to take care of their employees’ families. The obvious question arises: who takes care of their children, back home? As a parent, Domestic workers with their odd working hours and low or no literacy rate are nowadays trying to overcome the socio-economic challenges as well as handicaps of the profession by getting involved in their children’s academics. This paper investigates the effects of the length of working hours and education levels of domestic worker parents on their academic involvement with the children. The present study uses a descriptive survey research design to find out the relationship between academic involvement and work hours. The data was subjected to appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics. The results indicate a negative relationship between work hours and academicinvolvement. It is also revealed that higher education level to be associated with better academic involvement. The study thus calls for further intervention by schools and the government to motivate parents. Parent-teacher meetings may be of help in this respect along with workshops and government-sponsored programs to educate the parents to support them to climb up the socio-economic ladder through their children.
Highlights
Education has immense power as it is the key to survival and success in one’s life
The following discussion relates to the analysis of data on academic involvement of parents collected from 600 Domestic Workers of Kolkata concerning the two variables, work hours and education of the parents, using author made academic involvement scale
The objective corresponding to the null hypothesis (H02), states, that there is no significant effect of educational level of Domestic workers on Academic Involvement for the Education of their Children
Summary
Education has immense power as it is the key to survival and success in one’s life. Together with developing social and intellectual development of a person, education enables to unleash one’s innate potential, helps an individual to become economically productive and financially independent to enjoy a decent standard of living. The concomitant role of the parents in this respect is highly significant as they are the first educators of a child. Several studies have shown that involvement of parents in their children’s education to be positively correlated with the wards’ academic achievement (Desforges & Abouchaar, 2003; Fan & Chen, 2001; Epstein, 1995). Parent academic involvement has been found to have beneficial effect on the children’s motivation, social functioning, behavioural discipline and academics. Academic involvement too requires parental investment of time and other resources (Guryan, Hirst & Kearney, 2008)
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