Promising practices for fathers' involvement in children's education

• Other Authors: Ho, Hsiu-Zu (Editor), Hiatt-Michael, Diana B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2012]
• Series: Family, school, community, partnership issues.
• Subjects: Education > Parent participation.; Father and child.; Fathers > Psychology.; Home and school.; Education > Teaching > General.; Educational administration and organization.; Teaching skills and techniques.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806614592
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-952-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 179 pages) : illustrations

A timely collection of sound research addresses father involvement in their children's education. Promising Practices for Fathers' Involvement in Their Children's Education visits a less known side of parent involvement, the side of fathers' active engagement with their children&...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Chapter 1. American fathers, children, and their educational experience: Qualitative reflections on promoting social capital / William Marsiglio and Justin J. Hendricks
• Chapter 2. Father involvement in Canada, rollande deslandes
• Chapter 3. Father involvement in students' education in taiwan / Hsiu-Zu Ho, Kuang-Hui Yeh, Chih-Wen Wu, Connie N. Tran, and Wei-Wen Chen
• Chapter 4. Latino fathers and their involvement in their children's schooling / Robert P. Moreno and Susan S. Chuang
• Chapter 5. Fathers' and teachers' perceptions regarding their partnership in compulsory schools in Spain / Raquel-Amaya Martínez-González, Beatriz Rodríguez-Ruiz, Maria José Rodrigo-López
• Chapter 6. A cross-cultural perspective on father involvement in early education: Turkey and the United States / Elif Karsli and Martha Allexsaht-Snider
• Chapter 7. Father and parent involvement across Africa: A time of transition / Diana B. Hiatt-Michael, Ugo Nwokeji, and Cheri Scripter
• Chapter 8. Education and fatherhood in argentina / Ana Inés Heras
• Chapter 9. Father involvement in south korea / Ann Y. Kim and Hsiu-Zu Ho
• Chapter 10. Father-child relationships and schooling outcomes for ethnic minority adolescents / Brett Kia-Keating, Maryam Kia-Keating, and Karen Nylund-Gibson.