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This chapter is an introduction to the book. The goal of the book is to challenge the deficit perspectives on immigrant and minority parents’ involvement in their children’s education. In this chapter, Guo and Wu reconceptualize traditional models of parent involvement that has been socially constructed to privilege white, middle-class over those from non-English speaking backgrounds or of Aboriginal descent in North America. Different from parent involvement, parent engagement values immigrant parents as important contributors of knowledge about children, teaching and learning. This book includes four sections, moving from theory and policy, immigrant and minority parents’ perspectives, to teacher–parent relationships, and finally to pre-service teacher education, covering a wide range of critical perspectives from an international lens. Guo and Wu offer a summary of each chapter in these sections.
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Guo, Y., Wu, X. (2018). Home-School Relations: An Introduction. In: Guo, Y. (eds) Home-School Relations. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0324-1_1
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