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Direct linkWanru Xu; Bram Spruyt – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2025
Over the past decade, dissatisfied with mainstream education, some Chinese middle-class parents have migrated to Dali in search of lifestyle changes and alternative education for their children. Building on this phenomenon, this study draws on interviews with 45 parents and on-site observations to explore the temporal dimension of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Parent Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
Barrett DeWiele, Corinne E.; Edgerton, Jason D. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2016
In this paper, we revisit Brown's ("Br J Soc Educ" 14: 65-85, 1990) concept of "parentocracy" which has been informatively applied in educational research in a number of studies in various countries internationally--but almost none in North America. We provide an expanded conceptualization of parentocracy and suggest that it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Middle Class, Advantaged
Rudolph, Norma – Journal of Pedagogy, 2017
Policy for young children in South Africa is now receiving high-level government support through the ANC's renewed commitment to redress poverty and inequity and creating "a better life for all" as promised before the 1994 election. In this article, I explore the power relations, knowledge hierarchies and discourses of childhood, family…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Indigenous Knowledge, African Culture
