Parental Involvement on Children's Education / SpringerBriefs in Education (PDF)

HO Sui Chu Esther is Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy and Co-Director of Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research (HKIER) and the Hong Kong Centre for International Student Assessment (HKPISA Centre) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also Principal Investigator of the Home School Collaboration Project. She has previously been a teacher in respectively primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong; Fulbright Scholar at Pennsylvania State University (2004) and Johns Hopkins University (2010); Research Associate of the project Education and Development in South China; Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at the University of British Columbia, Canada; Teaching Consultant of the World Bank in the District Primary Educational Program, India. She has taught courses on School Effectiveness and School Restructuring; Educational Policy and Practice in Hong Kong; Family, Community and School: Policy & Practice; Education and Society in Hong Kong; Quantitative Analysis in Classroom & School Settings. Her research interests focus on parental involvement in children's education, home school community collaboration, school effectiveness and school reform, decentralisation and school-based management, research methodology in education, multilevel analysis in educational research.

KWONG Wai Man received his M.S.W. degree at the University of Hong Kong, counselling training at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. He studied the process of professional learning and changes of social workers for his Ph.D. degree at the University of Bristol. He began teaching in the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong in 1984, and is currently the Programme Leader of the MSSC programme of the City University of Hong Kong. His research interest covers a number of areas: parenting and parent education, parent involvement and school improvement, counselling and counsellor education, youth resilience,