Home-Based Parental Involvement in Young Children’s Learning Across U.S. Ethnic Groups : Cultural Models of Academic Socialization
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Home-Based Parental Involvement in Young Children’s Learning Across U.S. Ethnic Groups : Cultural Models of Academic Socialization
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Cultural Models of Academic Socialization
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<jats:p> Despite a growing body of research on school-based parental involvement, our knowledge of home-based involvement beliefs and practices, and how these vary across ethnic groups, remains limited. Our study addresses this gap by exploring how the meanings of educational achievement and parents’ roles in young children’s learning vary across ethnic groups. The aim of this study was to construct a detailed picture of the landscape of parental home-based involvement with children and to gain a deeper understanding of the beliefs, meanings, and goals underlying parents’ interactions. Forty-one middle-class Mexican American, African American, and European American mothers participated in semistructured interviews about their goals and interactions with their children in the domain of education. We identified seven themes across the interviews and constructed two cultural models of parental academic socialization: determination with intervention, more typical of ethnic minority group mothers, and trust and laissez-faire, more common among European American mothers. </jats:p>