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.
Highlights
Parent involvement can be referred to parents’ actively playing their roles both in school and at home for the benefit of the child’s general development and education success (Borgonovi & Montt, 2012)
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
Among the ethnic minority group in Hong Kong, 9% of them were aged under 15 (Census and Statistics Department, 2017), it is important to find ways to engage these parents to assist the learning of their children, so that they may integrate into the local society
Summary
Parent involvement can be referred to parents’ actively playing their roles both in school and at home for the benefit of the child’s general development and education success (Borgonovi & Montt, 2012). As for preschoolers, family engagement plays an important role in early childhood education and it makes positive impacts on the children’s development. Among the ethnic minority group in Hong Kong, 9% of them were aged under 15 (i.e., school age) (Census and Statistics Department, 2017), it is important to find ways to engage these parents to assist the learning of their children, so that they may integrate into the local society. A case will be presented as an example for investigating the facilitating factors for involving ethnic minority parents in Hong Kong. Implications generated from the findings will be discussed
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