Immigrant Parent Perspectives on Involvement in their Child’s Mathematics Learning: Views of East Asian Immigrant Parents in Aotearoa New Zealand

Parents and Teachers’ Perspectives on School Bullying Among Elementary School-Aged Asian and Latino Immigrant Children

Concerted efforts have been made to understand school bullying in the last decade; however, few studies have focused on Asian and Latino students. Recent research has proposed a social-ecological framework to study the influence of broader contexts—such as familial, school, and acculturation—on children’s bullying involvement (e.g., Hong & Espelage, 2012). The aim of this study was to qualitati...

Aotearoa New Zealand Kindergarten Parents Reflecting on Kindergarten : 2006 - 2007

This paper discusses emerging findings from 12 focus group interviews of parents who are currently using kindergarten as the main early childhood education provider for their child/children. These interviews are from a larger national study looking at current kindergarten culture within the early childhood sector of this century. Parents were asked what they liked about kindergarten and what, i...

Entre Familia: Immigrant Parents’ Strategies for Involvement in Children’s Schooling

Teachers and administrators in schools with large, working-class Latino populations often complain of parents’ indifference or lack of involvement in children’s schooling because of their low visibility at school events and relatively little face-to-face communication with teachers and school administration. In a series of semi-structured interviews with Latino immigrant parents, this study fin...

Social integration of immigrant children and their parents in Germany

Neonatal rickets in Asian immigrant population.