In this blog post published by the Fatherhood Institute, Helen Norman and Jeremy Davies reflect on what we already know about the relationship between parents’ involvement and children’s educational development, why fathers might be important and what the PIECE project will address.
You can read the full post here.
Professor Jennifer Tomlinson (University of Leeds) speaks to Helen about her research on what enables or hinders fathers’ childcare involvement, and how ways of working and caring in a child’s pre-school years sets up a pattern of caregiving that persists as the child grows older. Helen reflects on her earlier research and introduces this new project on father involvement and children’s education.
For more details, see here.
Listen to the podcast here.
Helen presented the project plans to FLaG members in a work in progress workshop chaired by Professor Sarah Irwin (one of the project’s advisory board members). Questions around the mechanisms behind fathers’ parenting as well as accounting for cultural factors and school context in our analysis were issues that were discussed.
Workshop slides here.
