Family, Culture, and Community

The importance of family, culture and community in a child’s education.

The families play a huge role in a child’s educational development. A parent can provide a child with learning rich environment at home, motivating them to learn and stay involved in their learning. Parent engagement in their child’s school can develop a love for learning in the children, and they are not only involved they are also motivated to learn and retain the information. An example of parent’s involved and motivation for children in education is when I was younger and my parents would get more excited for me if I was one of the top three kids in my school, I always used to feel good about myself and my self-esteem would increase, I would work hard to make my parents proud of me. 

As kids grow older their parents introduce them to the culture they are born in, which can be norms and behavior that children learn and follow. Culture beliefs and norms usually have a positive impact on the children, because it makes them closer to their parents. In Asian cultures it is important to attend school and do extremely well in school in order to meet your parent’s expectations. Culture can affect a child’s abilities in multiple domains such as cognitive, emotional, social, physical and language development. Cultural backgrounds provide children with an identity and belonging to a positive culture can help children excel in their academic careers. Children and teachers should appreciate and include diverse cultural beliefs to maximize children’s academic achievement and educational stress. 

There is a famous saying that it requires a village to raise a child, it is the responsibility of the community to assure high quality education for the children. Parents, culture and community involvement in education can support learning and deliver higher grade for the children. Community can provide with resources needed for all children and connecting school, community and parents can improve schools, strengthen families, create community support and increase students’ achievements and excellence. Community can provide students with the required resources and support, so the children can learn and develop their skills, giving them a boost in self-esteem, develop positive social relationships, improve behaviors and adapt well to school.