Description: "Collection of research studies and essays across multiple educational fields that provide empirical evidence on the state of parental involvement and family engagement in Jamaica. Provides critical onto-epistemological frameworks grounded within the Jamaican context to examine the scope, prevalence, and effects of parental involvement and family engagement in schooling".
Brief description:
Yewande Lewis-Fokum is
Lecturer in Literacy and Language Education, the School of Education, the
University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Review Quotes: "The impact of this study should be considered as an exceptional, thoroughly researched, and strong contribution to its field. The chapters are inimitably aligned and wholly support each other. The examination on parental involvement and family engagement is current and offers an extensive amount of new information to its field. Furthermore, the methodology on problem solving added a significant contribution. The findings in this research are new, which also allows for a substantive contribution to existing knowledge."