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"Keeping Close and Spoiling" Revisited: Exploring the Significance of "Home" for Family Relationships and Educational Trajectories in a Marginalised Estate in Urban South Wales
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Mannay, Dawn – Gender and Education, 2013
This paper revisits Diana Leonard's seminal paper "Keeping close and spoiling in a south Wales town", by drawing on one mother and daughter case study. Leonard focused on geographical closeness and the strategies employed by parents to keep their children living at home, rather than sending them to university. In contrast, this paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family School Relationship, Case Studies, Parent Child Relationship
Between the Estate and the State: Struggling to Be a "Good" Mother
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Vincent, Carol; Ball, Stephen J.; Braun, Annette – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2010
The paper draws on an ESRC-funded study of 70 families in two London locations. It focuses on a set of contemporary and contradictory political discourses that work on and through the lives of working-class mothers and thereby create tensions and impossibilities within their lives. We illustrate the ways in which these women are positioned by and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employed Women, Mothers, Working Class
Re-Engineering Motherhood? Sure Start in the Community
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Hey, Valerie; Bradford, Simon – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2006
This article draws on data collected through two focus groups and eight telephone interviews undertaken as part of an evaluation of a local Sure Start programme. Located in the context of New Labour's valorisation of parenting, and specifically mothering, the article explores the impact of Sure Start policy on discourses of motherhood in this…
Descriptors: Mothers, Focus Groups, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Resilient Young Mothering: Social Inequalities, Late Modernity and the "Problem" of "Teenage" Motherhood
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McDermott, Elizabeth; Graham, Hilary – Journal of Youth Studies, 2005
This paper draws on a systematic review of qualitative research to explore the resilient mothering practices that young, British, working-class mothers employ to care for their children. The synthesis of studies of UK mothers under the age of 20 demonstrates how young working-class women must mother in impoverished circumstances, at the same time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Qualitative Research, Mothers
Challenging the Academic (Mis)Categorization of Urban Youth: Building a Case for Puerto Rican High Achievers
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Antrop-Gonzalez, Rene; Velez, William; Garrett, Tomas – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2004
This article is intended to dispel the myth that Latinas and Latinos and other urban high school youths of color are not capable of performing at high academic levels. Much research shows that youths of color are underrepresented and underserved in gifted education programs. The authors describe the four success factors to which 10 working-class…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Gifted, Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities
Schoolsmart and Motherwise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling. Perspectives on Gender Series.
Luttrell, Wendy – 1997
This book examines the identity and schooling of working class women through the stories of 15 women from a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood and 15 women from southern rural communities who eventually moved to neighborhoods near Duke University in North Carolina. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the book and the study on which it is based.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Biographies