African American Parents’ Educational Involvement in Urban Schools: Contextualized Strategies for Student Success in Adolescence
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Title
African American Parents’ Educational Involvement in Urban Schools: Contextualized Strategies for Student Success in Adolescence
Abstract/Description
Research on parental educational involvement has been organized into three overarching domains -- home-based involvement, school-based involvement, and academic socialization. Conventional empirical work in these domains typically centers involvement strategies around White, middle-class experiences rather than examining how optimal parenting approaches vary by race and context. Even fewer studies have explored the manifestations of involvement across these categories in underresourced urban educational settings. In response, the current study draws on the voices of African American parents and their children attending urban public schools to describe the distinct approaches to home-based involvement, school-based involvement, and academic socialization that parents use to ensure a quality education for their children. Findings demonstrate how African American parents engage in racially infused and contextually tailored navigational involvement approaches as they seek to offset the effects of inhibiting educational contexts. Results add ecological nuance and new typologies to how parental involvement in education is conceptualized across the settings.
Author/creator
Date
In publication
Volume
50
Issue
1
Pages
6-16
Resource type
Background/Context
Medium
Print
Background/context type
Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0013-189X
Citation
Huguley, J. P., Delale-O’Connor, L., Wang, M.-T., & Parr, A. K. (2021). African American Parents’ Educational Involvement in Urban Schools: Contextualized Strategies for Student Success in Adolescence. Educational Researcher, 50(1), 6–16. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X20943199
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