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This chapter explores relevant cultural theories to provide the theoretical framework for the research. The comparison between Chinese culture and the Western culture lays the foundation for the interpretation and understanding of Chinese immigrants’ cross-cultural experiences. I also review the research on Chinese immigrant parents’ encounters with schooling in North America. Some of the research focused on the relationship between the parents’ expectation and the students’ achievement, while others discussed parent-teacher relations. Border pedagogy is one of the effective ways in addressing the question of how to better improve the school-family relations. These research findings provide new insights into my research participants’ experience with Canadian schools.
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Chi, X. (2020). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Chinese Immigrant Parents’ Experience. In: Cross-Cultural Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Mothers in Canada. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46977-1_2
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