Abstract: Primary school years present crucial opportunities for children’s development and learning. Parents’ engagement in their children’s education is thus important since they are the first educators of their children. Most importantly, parents’ engagement in the children’s education enhances their academic outcomes. The purpose of this study therefore was to assess the impact of parents’ engagement in their primary school children’s education as influenced by: their socio-economic status, level of education, teachers’ perception on parents’ engagement and the strategies used by schools to promote parents’ engagement in their children’s primary school education. The study was guided by Epstein’s Model of parents’ engagement which describes six types of parents’ engagement including: parenting, communication, volunteering, learning at home, decision making, and collaborating with the community. The study employed the descriptive research design and specifically used the survey method. The sample size constituted 4 primary schools, a similar number of head teachers, 12 students, 11 teachers, and 16 parents. The data collected from respondents, comprising students and teachers, was analyzed using SPSS. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages were used to analyze the data Interviews were also conducted with head teachers, students, education sector officials and parents. The results were presented in the form of tables and graph. Findings indicated that parents always participated in activities that required them to support their children financially. However, they moderately participated in other activities relating to education due to daily business engagements which paused a challenge to them thus limiting their capacity to engage themselves fully in their children’s education. The study recommended to school Head teachers to involve parents in their children education by inviting them regularly in various school-based or school-related activities at time. It was recommended to teachers also to provide to students the homework regularly and request to children to ask to their parents for helping them while they are doing them.
Keywords: Primary school, children’s education, children’s development and learning.
Title: A STUDY OF PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT ON SCHOOL PERFORMANCE IN NYARUGENGE DISTRICT (2014-2019)
Author: Dr. MBONIMANA Gamariel, MUJYAMBERE Gaspard
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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