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Cheng Zhong – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Parents' happiness orientation has garnered early attention in school choice studies but has not been cautiously examined. Drawing on Aristotle's framework of Eudaimonia and Hedonia, along with Ahmed's concept of the happiness promise, this study transcends a perspec­tive of preference and examines how parents understand and pursue happiness in…
Descriptors: School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Preferences, Psychological Patterns
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Bach, Dil; Christensen, Søren – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This article explores how conceptions of responsible parenting are re-negotiated in present-day Singapore. It discusses how policy changes in the pre-school area have affected parental practices and notions of morally worthy parenting. Pre-school reform promoting children's holistic development and less intensive parenting is part of a wider…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Preschool Education, Moral Values, Educational Policy
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Liu, Jia Li; Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Research by Xinyin Chen and others has documented that in past decades, shyness in Chinese children was associated with leadership, peer-acceptance, and academic achievement. In contemporary China, shyness predicts maladaptive youth outcomes. Although social, political, and economic transitions are presumed to be responsible for this shift, little…
Descriptors: Shyness, Child Development, Academic Achievement, Peer Acceptance
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Hoff, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 2013
On average, children from low socioeconomic status (SES) homes and children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken have language development trajectories that are different from those of children from middle-class, monolingual English-speaking homes. Children from low-SES and language minority homes have unique linguistic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Language Skills, Second Language Learning
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Park, Ju-Hee; Kwon, Young In – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2009
In order to understand how mothers develop their parenting styles under rapidly changing cultural contexts, this study examines and compares Korean upper-middle-class mothers' parental goals and real parenting practices as they reported. For this purpose, face-to-face in-depth interviews with 20 Korean mothers were conducted. By analyzing the…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Mothers, Korean Culture, Parenting Styles
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Ispa, Jean M.; And Others – Adolescence, 1990
Examined associations between early substitute care and White middle-class college students' psychosocial development and academic performance. No day care in infancy followed by full-time day care at ages two and four was best predictor of above-average high school academic achievement; part-time care throughout infancy and early childhood was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Child Caregivers, Child Development
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Cohen, Gaynor – Harvard Educational Review, 1981
This study of a middle-class housing estate in Great Britain shows how the women of the community foster a collective culture conducive to the academic success of the children. This reinforcement of social stratification inhibits working-class advancement and calls into question the efficacy of school reform in achieving equity. (SK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Child Rearing, Educational Sociology