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17. Cultural meaning of education and parents' involvement in education: Perspectives of immigrant Latinos.

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Liu, Aosai, Heath, Mikayla, and Grzywacz, Joseph G.

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PARENT participation in education, EDUCATION of children of immigrants, IMMIGRANTS, CHILDREN of immigrants, PARENT-student relationships, HISPANIC Americans, PARENTING, CULTURE
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Objective: This qualitative research describes how low‐education, largely undocumented immigrant Latino parents understand and engage in their children's education in the United States. Background: Education has a dual meaning in Latin America, emphasizing children's moral and academic development. It is unclear if this cultural model shapes how immigrant parents navigate the U.S. educational system with their children. Method: In‐depth interviews were completed with low‐education, largely undocumented immigrant Latino parents (N = 16). The narrative data were analyzed using a consensual method. Findings.: Analyses resulted in a conceptual model with three primary themes: Latino parents' bidimensional definition of education (i.e., moral and book smarts), unfamiliarity with education (i.e., the lack of educational experience and desire for generational improvement with education), and educational responsibilities (i.e., a division of labor between parents and teachers). Conclusions: The developed model suggests that low‐education immigrant Latino parents are involved in children's education in various ways related to their cultural capital, personal experience, and view of school as a "general black box." Implications.: Eliminating the education gap among Latino youth whose parents are undocumented or have limited educational attainment requires acknowledging that "parental involvement" has diverse cultural meanings. Outreach programs based on the proposed model may create more productive partnerships between parents and schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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38. Increasing the Health Promotive Capacity of Human Environments

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Stokols, Daniel, Grzywacz, Joseph G, McMahan, Shari, and Phillips, Kimari

Subjects
Health Services and Systems, Public Health, Health Sciences, Prevention, Generic health relevance, Community Health Planning, Community Participation, Concept Formation, Decision Making, Environment Design, Health Planning Guidelines, Health Promotion, Humans, Primary Prevention, United States, Human Movement and Sports Sciences, Public Health and Health Services, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Public health
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This article offers an integration of two different perspectives on health promotion research and practice: one emphasizing the concept of community capacity for health improvement and the other focusing on the notion of health supportive environments. These two approaches generally have emphasized different kinds of community assets for health promotion. Specifically, community capacity research has focused on the cultivation of human resources (e.g., collaborative coalitions, participatory decision-making, health education strategies) for health promotion, whereas environmentally oriented research has underscored the influence of material resources (e.g., the built environment, natural resources, technological infrastructure) on important health behaviors and outcomes. Combining these two streams of health promotion research yields a broader understanding of the health promotive capacity of human environments and suggests several "best process" guidelines for enhancing health promotion practice.

Published
2003

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