Collaborative Learning in Group Parent Education: A Case Study of Process and Outcome

Yuen, Lai Ha Freda; Kwong, Wai Man; Lam, Ching Man

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“…If parent education is truly empowering, it should gear towards challenging dominant paradigms and hegemonic power and embraces diversity and inclusivity given the pluralism in parenting knowledge, parental goals and values. The mode of "education" in parent education should no longer be "depository" but should instead gear towards collaborative learning through sharing and scrutinizing experience-bound personal parenting knowledge [50], [51].…”

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Has Parenting Changed over Past Decade? A Qualitative Study of Generational Shifts in Parenting

Lam¹,

Kwong²,

To³

2019

IJSSH

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Although the importance of taking a historical perspective in understanding a phenomenon has been well-recognized, attempt to study generational shifts in parenting is almost non-existent in Hong Kong. Contemporary parenting is characterized as fraught with problemsanxieties about children's well-being and one's own adequacy as a parent and worries about adverse consequences of parenting on one's children. Rhetoric abounds, such as -irresponsible parenting‖, -overprotective parenting‖, -anxious parents‖, -helicopter parents‖, and -monster parents‖. Such vernaculars are frequently found in the mass media sounding alarm over the state of contemporary parenthood. However, there are only few studies tracing how contemporary parenthood has come to be characterized as such. In retrospect as practitioners and researchers, we reckon that certain generational shifts in -themes‖ of parenthood are discernible. This study seeks to unravel these generational shifts in parenthood in the recent history of Hong Kong evolving into modern city. This study covered discourse analysis of 48 sampled items of primers on parenting and parent education resource materials, and 120 life story interviews with 60 parents, each being interviewed individually twice. The respondents were recruited to represent five parent-cohorts -first-time parents in the 1970's or before, in the 80's, in the 90's, in the 2000's and in the 2010's. Each parent-cohort was made up of 6 mothers and 6 fathers, giving a total sample of 30 mothers and 30 fathers. Reporting our preliminary findings, this paper explores generational shifts in parenting discourse and people's experience of parenthood over the past decades and examines how contextual factors and discursive formations promoted by parenting professionals have shaped and re-shaped parenting in Hong Kong in the past five decades.

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Has Parenting Changed over Past Decade? A Qualitative Study of Generational Shifts in Parenting

Lam¹,

Kwong²,

To³

2019

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“…Local scholars [7][8][9] have reminded us that parenting is not a technocratic or technical practices; it is about the personhood and "whole-person development" of parents. Along these lines, professionals must go deeper than surface level of knowledge and skills to work with the parents as individuals, to develop the parents' "personhood", and to develop collaborative practice in working with parents [44].…”

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Reflective Inquiry on Professionals’ Views on Parents and About Parenting

Lam

2015

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Although there are studies on attitudes and beliefs of parents in childrearing, there is a notable lack of studies on professionals’ attitudes and beliefs about parents and about parenting. This study examines both professionals’ views of parents and their attitudes and beliefs about parenting, and compares these attitudes and beliefs among different types of professionals. The results indicate that professionals involved in parent education hold a moderately negative view of parents despite being quite sympathetic to the stress experienced by parents. Findings also reveal an undue concern with parenting knowledge and skills. Differences between teachers and social workers were found in perceived stress of parents and perceived role of government. These findings provide an impetus to professionals, and to society at large, to reflect on the values and attitudes they have towards parents and the family.

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New immigrant parents’ experiences in a parent education programme

Yuen

2017

International Journal of Early Years Education

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Collaborative Learning in Group Parent Education: A Case Study of Process and Outcome

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Has Parenting Changed over Past Decade? A Qualitative Study of Generational Shifts in Parenting

Has Parenting Changed over Past Decade? A Qualitative Study of Generational Shifts in Parenting

Reflective Inquiry on Professionals’ Views on Parents and About Parenting

New immigrant parents’ experiences in a parent education programme

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