Bilingual Parents' Perspectives on Home-School Linkages. Draft.

Autor/in	Allexsaht-Snider, Martha
Titel	Bilingual Parents' Perspectives on Home-School Linkages. Draft.
Quelle	(1992), (39 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Bilingualism; Cultural Differences; Elementary Education; Family Environment; Family School Relationship; Limited English Speaking; Parent Attitudes; Parent Participation; Parent School Relationship; Parent Teacher Conferences; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Spanish Speaking + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Kultureller Unterschied; Elementarunterricht; Familienmilieu; Elternverhalten; Elternmitwirkung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung
Abstract	Findings of a case study that investigated immigrant bilingual and English-speaking parents' views on education are presented in this paper. The study was undertaken to analyze the relationship between cultural knowledge and the parents' attitudes toward schooling. Participant observation and interviews were conducted with 3 teachers and 13 families in 2 elementary schools in a small town on the southern California coast. Eleven of the families were predominantly Spanish-speaking. Parent-teacher conferences were analyzed to illustrate the ways in which both participants constructed an understanding of a student's schooling experiences. Postconference interviews indicated that teachers and parents did not construct common understandings, and that the conferences were limited by time constraints and a lack of a common knowledge and language. Disparities in their understandings reflected gaps in cultural knowledge between parents and teachers. A holistic theoretical model is recommended as a way to promote two-way interchanges between teachers and parents that includes a systematic plan for teacher cultural education and parent orientation. Joint research teams are suggested as a means to investigate parent-teacher collaboration. One figure and two tables are included. (Contains 24 references.) (LMI)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01