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Wang, Shihui.

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Chinese parents' views on parent choice and parent voice in an Ontario community.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Chinese parents' views on parent choice and parent voice in an Ontario community./
Author:	Wang, Shihui.
Description:	241 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4632.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-12A.
Subject:	Educational administration. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NN02868
ISBN:	9780612028685

Chinese parents' views on parent choice and parent voice in an Ontario community.
Wang, Shihui.

Chinese parents' views on parent choice and parent voice in an Ontario community. - 241 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4632.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 1995.

The demographic profile of Ontario is currently changing due to recent immigration, making the province increasingly multiethnic and creating a challenge for the public school system. At present, local public schools apparently have greater difficulty catering to the needs of the culturally diverse students and parents. In light of the structure of the school system, two factors may have contributed to this situation--limited parent choice and a low level of parent participation in schooling.

ISBN: 9780612028685Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122799
Educational administration.

Chinese parents' views on parent choice and parent voice in an Ontario community.
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520 $a The demographic profile of Ontario is currently changing due to recent immigration, making the province increasingly multiethnic and creating a challenge for the public school system. At present, local public schools apparently have greater difficulty catering to the needs of the culturally diverse students and parents. In light of the structure of the school system, two factors may have contributed to this situation--limited parent choice and a low level of parent participation in schooling.
520 $a This research examines ethnic minority parents' attitudes towards the reality of parent choice and parent voice in Ontario public school system. Instead of studying parents of all minority ethnics, the investigation focuses on Chinese parents. Interviews were conducted with individual Chinese parents and Chinese parent activists. Nonparticipant observations were also undertaken to study activities of the parent activists.
520 $a Findings indicate that the majority of the parents did not choose schools since the school attendance policy stipulates that a student normally go to the school nearest his/her home. At present, these parents have no claim on a more extensive choice system. However, in the parents' view, the current schools have various problems: inadequate homework, loose discipline, low level of mathematics, etc.
520 $a Parent activists are divided in their attitudes toward the existing choice system. One group emphasizes a need for full-scale open enrollment. The other sees potential problems with a more extensive choice system (e.g., overenrollment and underenrollment) and supports the status quo.
520 $a As for parent voice, the majority of individual parents have no motivation to participate actively in school affairs, while parent activists appear to desire higher levels of parent involvement in their children's education. Reiterating the importance of higher levels of parent involvement in public education, these parents demand greater parental influence on school decision-making.
520 $a Apparently, the status quo of parent choice in Ontario public school system is more acceptable to the majority of individual Chinese parents than to those who are more demanding or have higher standards for their children's education. The lack of parent voice in local public schools is less satisfactory to very demanding parents and parent activists than to the majority of individual Chinese parents.
520 $a On balance, this research supports a more extensive system of choice and sees parent choice and parent voice as complementary forms of school control. It also argues for greater parent participation in educational decision-making, governance, and advocacy.
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