The Role of Culture in Engaging Latino Parents’ Involvement in School:

By Yvonne De Gaetano. 2007

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Parents as "Help Labor": Inner-City Teachers' Narratives of Parent Involvement. (2011, background): “…scholars continue to find a persistent and widespread belief among some teachers that low-income African-American and Latino parents do not want to be involved in their children’s education (Chrispeels & Rivero, 2001; Chavkin, 1993; De Gaetano, 2007; García & Guerra, 2004; Peña 2000; Valdés, 1996).”
Latino Parent Involvement and School Success (2012, methodology): “Generally, the main message of informal parental support is sharing spoken and unspoken messages about the importance of school and education (De Gaetano, 2007).”
Can the Epstein Model of Parental Involvement Work in a High-Minority, High-Poverty Elementary School? A Case Study (2011, background): “Although African American, Latino, and parents in poverty may be more difficult for schools to engage in traditional methods of parent involvement, the evidence both in the literature and at Hawk Elementary suggests that these parents are involved in their children’s education (Barbarin et al., 2005”
Latino Parental Involvement in Kindergarten (2011, background): “…service of creating programs for children and partnerships with schools that are informed by culturally relevant knowledge, such as uses of language, cultural beliefs, values, and practices, and community needs and realities (see work by De Gaetano, 2007, Delgado-Gaitan, 1994, Moll & Ruiz, 2002).”
Exploring the Educational Involvement of Parents of English Learners. (2012, background): “For example, in some cultures, asking a teacher questions about his or her methods or assessment of a child would be considered disrespectful (De Gaetano, 2007).”
Defining family engagement among Latino Head Start parents: A mixed-methods measurement development study (2013, background): “In fact, ethnographic research uggests that, for Latino families, family engagement might involve igher levels of and a more diverse set of activities in the home and ess involvement in the school (De Gaetano, 2007; López, Scribner, Mahitivanichcha, 2001).”
Latino Parents' Motivations for Involvement in Their Children's Schooling: An Exploratory Study (2011, methodology): “Such teacher invitations have been linked to increased levels of parental involvement in school-based activities (De Gaetano, 2007; Grolnick, Price, Beiswenger, & Sauck, 2007; Kohl, Lengua, & McMahon, 2002; Simon, 2004).”