Parent Involvement In Their Children Education In Selected Government Preschools In Addis Ababa

The purpose of this study was to assess parent’s involvement in selected government preschools rnchildren in Addis Ababa City Administration. In total, 162 parents selected for the study, and 2rnpreschools administrators and 3 teachers were interviewed. Lev Vygotsky’s sociocultural rntheoretical framework was used to guide this study. Correlation was conducted to see the rnrelationship between parents involvement, with parent’s number of children at home (r=-0.002)rnand age of children(r=.085), the result showed that parent involvement does not have rnrelationship with number of children at home and age of a child. T-test was also used to rndetermine if there is significant difference between who has male and female children regarding rnparental involvement. There was no significant difference (p< .001) between parents whose rnchildren are male and female. Teachers asked about what the school arrange to invite parents in rnthe school environment. In all the pre-schools, schools organize only meeting with in a semester.rnTherefore, parent’s participation in school is limited. In addition to this, parents’ busy working rnschedule also limit parent’s participation. According to the current study, participation of rnparents in government preschools children is moderate.rnThis study could possibly contribute to show up and increases the level of involvement by givingrninformation about their level of involvement. In addition, the study increases teachers and rnparents understanding of parent involvement and participation in their children education by rngiving information about importance of parent involvement

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