Migrant parents at high school: Exploring new opportunities for involvement

This article examines the at-school opportunities Norwegian high schools provide for involving migrant parents in their children’s education. The legal and societal expectations of systematic school-home cooperation with all at this time transition to higher education or employment are relatively new Norway. Thus, how act on these as they meet is under-researched. To address gap, interviews four leaders three different sociocultural profiles observations meetings one were conducted a part study. Examined through Bourdieusian lens, parental involvement—or rather traditional lack involvement outside crises—can be interpreted form high-school doxa. unquestionable truth now challenged more rights granted parents, heterodox beliefs discourses about adolescents school emerge. At same time, focus study appear have limited room imagining forms content non-crisis communication home, especially when do not directly claim rights, true many families. thus contributes existing research home-school relations by emphasizing need professional discussion equitable better situated engaging well school’s areas responsibility including families educational communities.