Parental involvement as a form of social capital in Japanese elementary school

• Main Author: Jabar, Melvin A.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: Education, Elementary—Parent participation—Japan; Social capital (Sociology)—Japan; Education; Elementary Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7208
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study examines parental involvement in a Japanese elementary school in the context of social capital theory discourses. It is part of an on-going doctoral dissertation on bicultural children's educational experiences and outcomes. Data for this paper were drawn from a 5-month field work in...