The Importance of Presence: Immigrant Parents’ School Engagement Experiences
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- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Educational Research Association (AERA) in American Educational Research Journal
- Vol. 42 (3), 465-498
- https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312042003465
Abstract
The authors have been engaged in research focused on how parents in high-poverty urban communities negotiate understandings and build sustaining relationships with others in school settings. In this article, the authors draw upon ethnographic methodology to report on the stories of three working-class immigrant parents and their efforts to participate in their children’s formal education. Their stories are used as exemplars to illuminate the challenges immigrant parents face as they work to participate in their children’s schooling. In contrasting the three stories, the authors argue that parental engagement needs to be understood through parents’ presence in schooling, regardless of whether that presence is in a formal school space or in more personal, informal spaces, including those created by parents themselves.Keywords
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