Overview
- Describes education reforms designed to improve academic achievement
- Illustrates policies and practices that target both schools and families
- Examines the complicated issue of parental involvement in adolescents’ academic life
Part of the book series: Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life (YPLP, volume 3)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- cognitive control
- school systems
- social psychology
- developmental psychology
- education and parenting in Colombia
- parenting involvement in education
- adolescents' academic achievement
- education and parenting in China
- Education and Parenting in Italy
- Education and Parenting in Jordan
- Education and Parenting in Kenya
- childhood studies
About this book
This volume takes an international and multidisciplinary approach to understanding students’ academic achievement. It does so by integrating educational literature with developmental psychology and family studies perspectives. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a particular country: China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, or the United States. It describes the country as a cultural context, examines the current school system and parenting in light of the school system, and provides empirical evidence from that country regarding links between parenting and students’ academic achievement. The book highlights similarities and differences in education and parenting across these nine countries - all varying widely in socioeconomic and cultural factors that affect schools and families. The volume contributes to greater understanding of links between parenting and academic performance in different cultural groups. It sheds light on how school systems and parenting are embedded in larger cultural settings that have implications for students’ educational experiences and academic achievement. As two of the most important contexts in which children and adolescents spend time, understanding how schools and families jointly contribute to academic achievement holds promise for advancing the international agenda of promoting quality education for all.
Reviews
“The contribution is to parental involvement and education, with a specific focus on youth. The countries are diverse beyond anglo-saxon countries that are usually reported in parental involvement literature. The manuscript is up-to-date with thelatest literature to describe each of the countries. The contribution is providing a diverse range of countries and looking across with selected criteria.” (Susanne Garvis, University of Gothenburg, Department of Education, Communication and Learning, Sweden)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: School Systems, Parent Behavior, and Academic Achievement
Book Subtitle: An International Perspective
Editors: Emma Sorbring, Jennifer E. Lansford
Series Title: Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28277-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28276-9Published: 26 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28279-0Published: 26 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28277-6Published: 17 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-5642
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5650
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 151
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Child and School Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Education Policy