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A Search for New Ways of Describing Parent-Child Relationships

A Search for New Ways of Describing Parent-Child Relationships What are children’s perceptions and experience of parent-childrelationships in Hong Kong, where westernization (modernization) has met with theindigenous Chinese culture? This article focuses on how school children in Hong Kongare constantly grappling with ‘Chinese’ and‘western’ traditions in the parent-child relationship as theyhear different voices from school guidance professionals, school principals,teachers and parents in an already hybridized society at large. Findings suggestthat school stakeholders hold different views about the parent-child relationshipand that parents are the most ambivalent about their parental role, being caughtbetween the traditional idea of authority and submission, and the modern idea ofequality. Furthermore, discrepancies between belief and behaviour are causingtensions for all stakeholders. The findings have theoretical as well as practicalimplications in teacher training, parent education and guidance programmes forprimary school children. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Childhood: A journal of global child research SAGE

A Search for New Ways of Describing Parent-Child Relationships

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SAGE
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ISSN
0907-5682
eISSN
1461-7013
DOI
10.1177/0907568205047110
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Abstract

What are children’s perceptions and experience of parent-childrelationships in Hong Kong, where westernization (modernization) has met with theindigenous Chinese culture? This article focuses on how school children in Hong Kongare constantly grappling with ‘Chinese’ and‘western’ traditions in the parent-child relationship as theyhear different voices from school guidance professionals, school principals,teachers and parents in an already hybridized society at large. Findings suggestthat school stakeholders hold different views about the parent-child relationshipand that parents are the most ambivalent about their parental role, being caughtbetween the traditional idea of authority and submission, and the modern idea ofequality. Furthermore, discrepancies between belief and behaviour are causingtensions for all stakeholders. The findings have theoretical as well as practicalimplications in teacher training, parent education and guidance programmes forprimary school children.

Journal

Childhood: A journal of global child researchSAGE

Published: Feb 1, 2005

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