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Parental Involvement on Children’s Education

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The decentralization policy and school-based management in Hong Kong has elevated the issue of home–school cooperation to the agenda of educational reform, and has since fueled a growing interest in promoting parental involvement as one of the strategies in enhancing children’s education and improving accountability of schools to communities (Epstein 1990; Ho and Willms 1996; Jeynes 2005, 2007; Lareau 1989; Wolfendale 1992). In Hong Kong, the involvement of parents in their children’s education was not formally recognized in educational policies until the pronouncement of the School Management Initiative (Education and Manpower Branch and Education Department 1991), School-Based Management (Education Department 2000) and Education Commission Report No. 7 (Education Commission 1997). Within the school-based management policy enacted into law in July 2004, the role of parents in educating their children has become even more essential and parental involvement is being seen as an integral part of school education.

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    Briefing session on Education (Amendment) Bill 2002 conducted by Mrs. Fanny Law, Permanent Secretary for Education and Manpower, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government on 31 January 2004.

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  1. Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, N.T., Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    Esther Sui-Chu Ho

  2. Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    Wai-Man Kwong

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Ho, E.SC., Kwong, WM. (2013). Literature Review. In: Parental Involvement on Children’s Education. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4021-99-9_1

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