Family Life Educators and Parent Education in Maryland

John J. Kurtz

doi:10.2307/349563

Parent Education: Developments and Discrepancies

Children Australia ◽

10.1017/s0312897000001624 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 14-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

June Allan ◽

Cynthia Schultz

Keyword(s):

Adverse Effects ◽

Parent Education ◽

Family Life ◽

Parental Authority ◽

Parental Role ◽

Parental Competence ◽

Research Project ◽

Self Reliance ◽

The Family ◽

Professional Intervention

ResumeThe effects of professional intervention in family life and relationships has been questioned by a number of writers who maintain that this involvement has led to the undermining of parental authority and a lessening of parental competence and confidence. By contrast, others see this involvement as supplying necessary skills to family members.Amongst the programmes which professionals have implemented are parent education programmes, many of which are conducted in groups and which are valued by both practitioners and writers. As part of the broader debate about the relationships between professionals and the family however, some critics suggest that parent education programmes can have adverse effects on parents' confidence in their parental role and on their self-reliance in deciding how best to raise their children.A research project is being put into effect in Melbourne to explore these issues.

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Issues Validation: A New Environmental Scanning Technique for Family Life Educators

Family Relations ◽

10.2307/585187 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 251 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Randy R. Weigel ◽

Robert J. Fetsch ◽

Glen O. Jenson ◽

Raymond K. Yang ◽

David L. Rogers

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Environmental Scanning ◽

Scanning Technique ◽

Family Life Educators

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Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites

Pragmatics ◽

10.1075/prag.20071.ala ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali ◽

Hanan A. Shatat

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Family Life ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Cultural Ideologies ◽

Shared Parenting ◽

Arabic And English ◽

Family Life Educators

Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences and similarities between Arabic and English parents’ role in Arabic and English parenting website texts and the linguistic exponents used to address parents and signal their roles, and to find out the socio-cultural ideologies that have given rise to variations in gender roles. To this end, a corpus of 40 articles targeting gender-neutral titles and father related ones were selected equally from English and Arabic websites. Drawing on Van Leeuwen’s (2008) framework on critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Sunderland’s (2000, 2006) framework of analysis, the data were analysed and contrasted. The English texts reflected the prevalence of ‘shared parenting’ discourse, whereas the Arabic ones revealed a ‘very traditional parenthood’ discourse. These differences can be attributed to variation in the socio-cultural practices dominant in Arab and Western societies. Such findings will hopefully provide some useful insights for family life educators and parents who resort to such websites.

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