Parent Involvement for Multicultural Families in Korea

The growing number of children from multicultural families challenges teachers who have these children in their classrooms. In an effort to educate children of multicultural family, the importance of parent involvement in the education of their children is an issue that has gained much attention over the years. The increasingly diverse student population calls for additional exploration of supporting connections to facilitate learning process of the children from multicultural families. Although research is beginning to investigate the education of children in multicultural families, there remains a lack of research efforts on parent involvement focusing on multicultural family. The purpose of this paper is to review perspectives of parent involvement, benefits of parent involvements as well as barriers to parent involvement, and involvement for multicultural parents in order to understand meaning of parent involvement in the context of multicultural education and to set up direction for future study. This article will provide some suggestions for new practices that will effectively support the education of these children.