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Direct linkMizrachi, Maayan; Maxwell, Claire; Yemini, Miri – Education Inquiry, 2022
This study adds to the emerging body of literature on parental practices and trajectories of globally mobile middle-class families, by focusing on families belonging to diverse religious Jewish communities. Through an interview-based, in-depth analysis of three internationally mobile families representing various Jewish religious factions, we…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Middle Class, Role of Religion
Yemini, Miri; Maxwell, Claire – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This article makes an empirical contribution to the study of the global middle class (GMC), and sheds light on the complex relationships that are constructed and sustained by these families with their 'home nation' through their educational strategies. Drawing on an inductive analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with Israeli migrant mothers in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Family (Sociological Unit), Mothers
Yemini, Miri; Maxwell, Claire – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
Travel has become ubiquitous for most social groups as holidaying abroad has become ever cheaper and ecumene. This paper considers how travel can be understood as part of family practices around children's educations and futures. Drawing on Kaufmann's concept of motility, we examine how spatial mobility might become a form of cultural capital to…
Descriptors: Travel, Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Social Mobility
Erdreich, Lauren; Golden, Deborah – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper presents a theoretical argument regarding the power of school to shape parental involvement in culturally informed ways. The paper emerges out of preliminary fieldwork among Jewish middle-class parents in a town in northern Israel, during which our attention was drawn to the intense activity in and around their children's transition to…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Parent Participation, Cultural Capital, Family School Relationship
Deborah Golden; Lauren Erdreich – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case is based on our cross-cultural study of Israeli middle-class mothers' engagement in their children's education. The mothers in our study belong to three social-cultural groups: Palestinian Israeli, Russian immigrants, and Israeli-born Jewish. These three groups participate today in the Israeli middle class, albeit with different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Participation, Middle Class
Maxwell, Claire; Yemini, Miri – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
In this study, we explore how different forms of family mobility shape parental education strategies of three middle-class groups (moored Israeli professionals, immigrants from Israel to the UK and global middle class Israeli families). By focusing on families from the same nationality, we show how different practices of mobility differentiate…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Immigrants, Professional Personnel, Global Approach
