PO673: Asian Immigrant Family Involvement: A Cultural Mismatch Perspective

  • PMD: 2,7
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 7: Consultation and Collaboration With Educators and Parents

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. learn the uniqueness of Asian immigrant parents' involvement in their children's education;
  2. understand different perspectives of parental involvement between Asian immigrant parents and U.S. educators; and
  3. conceptualize barriers of Asian immigrant parental involvement through a cultural mismatch perspective.

Description

Do school and Asian immigrant families perceive parental involvement and its barriers differently? Learn how family–school cultural mismatch contributes to the difficulty of Asian immigrant parental involvement.

Presenter(s)

Xueqin Lin, University of California Berkeley
Chunyan Yang, University of California Berkeley

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