Parent Involvement in their Children Education in Selected Government Preschools in Addis Ababa
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2021-08
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess parent’s involvement in selected government preschools
children in Addis Ababa City Administration. In total, 162 parents selected for the study, and 2
preschools administrators and 3 teachers were interviewed. Lev Vygotsky’s sociocultural
theoretical framework was used to guide this study. Correlation was conducted to see the
relationship between parents involvement, with parent’s number of children at home (r=-0.002)
and age of children(r=.085), the result showed that parent involvement does not have
relationship with number of children at home and age of a child. T-test was also used to
determine if there is significant difference between who has male and female children regarding
parental involvement. There was no significant difference (p< .001) between parents whose
children are male and female. Teachers asked about what the school arrange to invite parents in
the school environment. In all the pre-schools, schools organize only meeting with in a semester.
Therefore, parent’s participation in school is limited. In addition to this, parents’ busy working
schedule also limit parent’s participation. According to the current study, participation of
parents in government preschools children is moderate.
This study could possibly contribute to show up and increases the level of involvement by giving
information about their level of involvement. In addition, the study increases teachers and
parents understanding of parent involvement and participation in their children education by
giving information about importance of parent involvement
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parent involvement, preschool children