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- Title
Parental Approaches for Educating Children in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
- Authors
Akhter, Nasreen; Bano, Humara
- Abstract
Results of this paper are based on a survey study aiming to detect the approaches of parents regarding education of children in Pakistan. It used data collected through questionnaire from 759 intermediate level students and found out some styles of parents that negatively affect education of children at school level. These were practice of preferring son or daughter, polarization in case of decision making regarding education such as subject selection, preferring tuition instead of helping themselves or contacting teachers and ignoring call by school. Study suggested parents to apprehend the desires and necessities of siblings, and to adopt approaches helpful in promotion of children through better educational process.
- Subjects
BAHAWALPUR (Pakistan); PAKISTAN; PARENTING education; CHILDREN; SEX discrimination in education; POLARIZATION (Social sciences); SEGREGATION in education
- Publication
Journal of Educational Research (1027-9776), 2013, Vol 16, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1027-9776
- Publication type
Article