Parental Involvement in Supporting Their Children with Special Educational Needs at School and Home in Bhutan

Autor/inn/en	Jigyel, Karma; Miller, Judith A.; Mavropoulou, Sofia; Berman, Jeanette
Titel	Parental Involvement in Supporting Their Children with Special Educational Needs at School and Home in Bhutan
Quelle	In: Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 43 (2019) 1, S.54-68 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Jigyel, Karma)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2515-0731
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Parent Participation; Children; Parents; Parent Child Relationship; Special Needs Students; Special Education; Family School Relationship; Interaction; Inclusion; Bhutan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elternmitwirkung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Eltern; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Interaktion; Inklusion
Abstract	This paper reports the findings from a study investigating Bhutanese parents' involvement in supporting their children with special educational needs (SEN) in schooling. The interaction between the parents themselves in supporting each other was also explored. Individual interviews were conducted with 26 parents (13 fathers and 13 mothers) of children with either full inclusion or partial inclusion in 3 schools located in 3 regions (urban, semi-urban, and rural) and analysed using manual thematic coding and Leximancer text mining software. Of Epstein's (1987) 6 types of parental involvement activities in education, these parents reported their actions to be parenting, volunteering in schools, supporting learning and development at home, and collaborating with the community. The minimal interaction among the parents was mostly between the stay-in-school urban mothers who had consistent but impromptu and informal interactions. The implications of this study inform the need for schools to respond to policy and to actively engage parents, and for education programs and support groups to be set up to strengthen parental involvement in the education of children with SEN in Bhutan. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01