LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:12 December 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Parents Towards
Monitoring Their Children's Academics at Home

Asra Ali, M.Sc., (Ph.D. Research Scholar) and
Rajalakshmi. M.S., M.Sc., M.Ed., Ph.D. (Research Guide)

Abstract

A life-long love for learning can emerge and be fostered with the support of parents. When parents become involved with their child's schoolwork, the child in turn realizes that education is an important facet to the parents. Children automatically tend to work harder at their studies when parents are involved in their academics. Parents in turn should set high standards for their children, encourage their children to work hard and maximize their full potential.

It can be said that most parents are already naturally engaged with their children in many of their children’s activities. This engagement can solidify the family bonding and help children develop holistically within their differing strengths to become confident and meaningful individuals first and citizens next, thereby contributing to the growth of the nation in later years. However, most of the times parents are unaware about how to actively participate in their children’s academics. They most often either follow methods that their parents had practiced, or their peers’ practice and recommend. They almost always encourage learning by memorization and adopt the question-and-answer technique when engaging their children at home. They expect verbatim repetitions of what is written in the school notebook. Children who are not strong on language skills may find this method of study a herculean task.

Therefore, the broad objective of the present study was to investigate the parental involvement in their children’s academics through assessing parents’ knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) towards their children’s learning. A Knowledge, Attitude and Practice scale was designed and Standardized.

Applying the cluster sampling method, 600 parents of children studying in classes 1 to 6 were drawn from 8 schools across the 4 Zones of Bangalore city for the KAP survey. Analysis of the KAP survey results indicated a significant difference between the KAP parameters of parents selected for the study. Although parents are actively involved in their children’s academics, they are not aware of scaffolding their children’s learning by focusing on their learning strengths. The results obtained call for an intervention program that could help parents understand how they can scaffold their children’s learning to make their learning more meaningful.

Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Parents, Monitoring, Children’s Academics.

Introduction

Most parents, even the educated ones, are ignorant of their child’s learning ability, style and preference. They leave academics to the teachers and are satisfied only if the child is doing homework regularly and scoring good marks in tests.

It has been found generally that parents do not explore alternative means of learning and many of them in fact get upset if their child wants to experiment methods such as studying with a friend, reading aloud, lying down and reading, walking around, making charts or listening to music.

Parents with limited income inevitably tend to focus on trying to ensure that their child gets good grades, admission in a reputed college and pursue a time-tested professional course (read: Engineering). ‘Competition’ is an all-pervading word that causes anxiety and sleepless nights to many parents, particularly at the time of tests and exams. Many parents pressurize teachers to give more homework, take extra classes, hold mock-tests, with the single-minded purpose of getting those elusive extra marks that will ensure a ‘stable’ future.

Most parents are unaware of the range of careers available, and their potential. They do not know the concept of matching the child’s aptitude to most suitable career. Their world is limited to ensuring that their child gets better marks than his peers, and that they feel is the ultimate parameter of good parenting.

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Asra

Asra Ali, M.Sc., (Ph.D. Research Scholar)
Department of Early Childhood Education and Administration
Smt. V.H.D Central Institute of Home Science (Autonomous)
Seshadri Road, Gandhi Nagar
Bengaluru-560001, Karnataka, India
asraali1989@gmail.com

Rajalakshmi. M.S., M.Sc., M.Ed., Ph.D. (Research Guide)
Department of Early Childhood Education and Administration
Smt. V.H.D Central Institute of Home Science (Autonomous)
Seshadri Road, Gandhi Nagar
Bengaluru-560001, Karnataka, India
rajmasesh@gmail.com
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