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Community Engaged Parent Education: Strengthening Civic Engagement Among Parents and Parent Educators
Author(s) -
Doherty William J.,
Jacob Jenet,
Cutting Beth
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00554.x
Subject(s) - civic engagement , parent education , curriculum , public engagement , variety (cybernetics) , pedagogy , community engagement , community education , psychology , sociology , public relations , political science , developmental psychology , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , law
We introduce Community Engaged Parent Education as a model for civic engagement in parent education. In Community Engaged Parent Education, the parent educator weaves the public dimensions of parenting into the everyday practice of group parent education. It is not a curriculum but a community‐collaborative way of teaching all parenting topics by connecting parents' personal concerns to public issues. We describe the origins, principles, and core practices of this approach. Then we present evaluation data demonstrating that parent educators can learn to implement this approach to parent education, and that parents respond with a variety of forms of civic engagement.