Parental Involvement of African Migrants in Multicultural Israeli Education Settings

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The topic studied is interesting and investigates the use of powerful qualitative-phenomenological research to "examine the cultivation of mutually beneficial, mutually beneficial relationships between African asylum-seeking educators and parents, focusing on the first level of the Hoover-Demp-sey model of parental involvement in Tel Aviv, Israel." (line 5-6). There are many good points. The introduction is good, with a more general framing of the issue and then sticking to the specific topic.The article can be strengthened along the following lines. Some aspects of the method need to be revised. For example, in line 282 it indicates the social structures of the participants, and ends with "more", what does it mean? Does the author indicate that the sample of participants was purposive? It is not clear how this group of participants was initially selected, what were the interview questions (or dimensions) and was any software used to process the data? The results are fine, but I think you are confusing discussion with results. Either modify or clarify this style. The discussion lacks references to other studies (the author(s) only write the presentation of the results).

I hope that these considerations will help the authors to reflect and improve their manuscript. Congratulations!

 

Author Response

3/14/2024

Dear Reviewer, #1

Thank you for your insightful comments regarding the revised manuscript "Parental Involvement of African Migrants in Multicultural Israeli Education Setting."

All changes in the article are in purple font.

 

1. Many thanks for the help and support in improving the manuscript.
2. I reread the method chapter and clarified it.
3. The findings chapter is - findings and discussion - within a dialogue and reference to other sources. The following chapter is a summary.
4. Method chapter - I added information on selecting the participants: the educators and the parents.

Sincerely,

The Author

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

There are many areas of this paper that need significant review and amendment if it is to be published.

First, the literature on parental involvement needs to be far more balanced to take account of literature that covers parental engagement in other similar countries (high-income, economically developed) such as the one currently under study.

Second, there is concentration only on the experiences of these parents in this one country, citing their negative experiences as evidence of having settlement problems in this one education system. There is little use of literature in settlement and educational integration in other countries that are parliamentary democracies with a maintained religion. 

Third, the empirical findings are interpreted through one lens only - there is a sense of limited engagement with other possible interpretations. 

Comments on the Quality of English Language

The language is fine with a few changes.

Author Response

3/14/2024

Dear Reviewer, #2

Thank you very much for the general comments about the article.

Here are some clarifications:

 

1. Characteristics of the parents participating in the study - all the parents are asylum seekers and African refugees. They live in difficult living conditions on the social margins, working from morning to night, sometimes with two jobs. They suffer from general, occupational, and family instability and experience a sense of alienation and social non-belonging. Thus, the literature review chapter deals with disadvantaged minority populations.
2. The literature review and findings chapter richly dialogues the research findings with similar studies done in other countries worldwide on immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
3. The findings and discussion chapter maintain a dialogue with the findings of other studies while exposing a critical point of view.

Sincerely,

The Author

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Thankyou for responding to my queries.