Relationship between Cultural Capital and Level of Parental Participation in Primary Education in Migori County, Kenya

Abstract

This paper is part of a larger doctoral study to explore the relationship between the community capitals and level of parental participation in primary education in Migori County, Kenya. The paper focuses on the cultural capital, which is one of the community capitals. A questionnaire was used to collect the data from 436 parents of children learning in 16 primary schools. The reliability and the construct validity of the questionnaire was ascertained through the Cronbach's Alpha test and Exploratory Factor Analysis, respectively. The study showed that there was a statistically significant correlation between cultural capital and the level of parental participation in primary education (r = .328).  The aspect of cultural capital that was found to contribute most (r = .395) to the correlation was the attitude towards early marriage.