Parenting in the South Seas. Educational Skills in Remote Archipelagos of French Polynesia

The paper presents the results of an exploratory research on parental practices and attitudes in three peripheral archipelagos of French Polynesia: the Marquesas, the Australs, and the Tuamotus Islands. Its aim was to identify parenting typologies in isolated contexts using the Parenting Skills Eval...

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Published inRivista italiana di educazione familiare Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 23 - 45
Main Authors Ailincai, Rodica, Alì, Maurizio, Paia, Mirose, Guy, Emilie, Wong, Déana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Florence Firenze University Press 01.07.2022
Università di Firenze
Subjects
Academic achievement
Analysis
Cognitive science
Education
Home and school
Humanities and Social Sciences
Library and information sciences
Methods and statistics
Parent and child
Parent attitudes
Parent participation
Parent-child relations
Parenting
Psychology
Rural areas
Social Anthropology and ethnology
Social networks
Sociology
France
Quebec
French Polynesia
competenze genitoriali
Francia d'oltremare
overseas France
Outre-mer
ECEP
Parentalité
parent-school relation
école-famille
compétences parentales
parenting skills
Parents enfants
coéducation
relazione genitori-figli
relazione genitori-scuola
parent-child relation
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Summary:The paper presents the results of an exploratory research on parental practices and attitudes in three peripheral archipelagos of French Polynesia: the Marquesas, the Australs, and the Tuamotus Islands. Its aim was to identify parenting typologies in isolated contexts using the Parenting Skills Evaluation Scale (Échelle des Compétences Éducatives Parentales, ECEP) with 120 parents living in remote islands. The data analysis indicates that families living in such isolated contexts are in a rather vulnerable situation in relation to schooling. Parental attitude is in most cases normative, attributing a significant importance to school success, but domestic practices appear mostly liberal, characterized by unsupervised autonomy combined with moments of strictness, as observed in other postcolonial and marginalized contexts. Finally, the article discusses the efficacy of the ECEP as a valid measurement tool in family studies, confirming its effectiveness.
ISSN:1973-638X
2037-1861
DOI:10.36253/rief-12851