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Family Perceptions Of Family Engagement: A Qualitative Study To Assist Stakeholders, Candis Ervin
Family Perceptions Of Family Engagement: A Qualitative Study To Assist Stakeholders, Candis Ervin
Doctor of Education in Teacher Leadership Dissertations
This qualitative study sought to understand how professional working families with elementary age children perceive family engagement. Through one-on-one interviews, the researcher gained insight on how families define and perceive family engagement. The open-ended, one-on-one, semi-structured interviews included a purposeful sample of 8 participants. An analysis of data included a system of coding to link thoughts across data after reviewing, reflecting, and transcribing interviews. Their rich descriptions provide detailed information that is extremely useful to understanding the complexities of family engagement and its ability to support teachers, students, families and schools.
Findings from the study revealed the importance of families, …