Relationship between Parents' Educational Expectations and Children's Growth Based on NVivo 12.0 Qualitative Software

Abstract

The relationship between parents' educational expectations and children's growth is a hot topic in family education. In this study, in-depth interviews are conducted with 30 elementary school students and their parents, and the interview data are analyzed by NVivo 12.0 qualitative software. Based on the data from NVivo 12.0, this study initially constructs a model of the relationship between parents' educational expectations and children's growth. This study consists of six parts, including introduction, literature review, research method and materials, results and discussion, and conclusions. The study finds that the educational expectations of elementary school students' parents include three main contents: Their children's quality expectations, learning expectations, and life expectations; the differences in perceptions of educational expectations lead to differences in parents' behaviors, which in turn affects the children's growth; parents should maintain high expectations for their children when there is a deviation between children's growth and parents' expectations, and parents should not make a simple attribution to children and lower expectations; parental educational ways and teaching by words and deeds are the guarantees of parents' educational expectations and the conditions for promoting children's growth; national education policy is the fundamental guarantee to promote parents' educational expectations and children's growth. The research conclusions have different opinions on the content and cognition of parents' educational expectations and can provide a scientific basis for parents' family education guidance.