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The need to strengthen the educative role of parents: Some implications drawn from educational productivity research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Jeff Dorman*
Affiliation:
School of Education, Australian Catholic University, McAuley Campus, Everton Park Queensland

Abstract

This article considers the empirical results of educational productivity research conducted by a team of researchers from Australia and the United States in the mid 1980s. Based on nine factors identified by this research, three issues that highlight the important educative role of parents, namely, the quality of the home learning environment, homework support and monitoring television viewing are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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