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Direct linkVincent, Carol; Braun, Annette – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
This paper reports on data drawn from an "Economic and Social Research Council"-funded project investigating the experiences of UK-based students training on level-2 and level-3 childcare courses. We focus on the concept of emotional labour in relation to learning to care for and educate young children and the ways in which the students'…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Class, Child Care Occupations, Child Care
Ball, Stephen J.; Rollock, Nicola; Vincent, Carol; Gillborn, David – Research Papers in Education, 2013
This paper addresses some particular aspects of the complex intersections between race and social class. It is based upon data collected as part of a two-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project exploring the "Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes" (BMC). ("The Educational Strategies of the Black…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Working Class, Middle Class, Racial Bias
Vincent, Carol; Braun, Annette; Ball, Stephen – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
This article draws on data from two recently completed Economic and Social Research Council funded projects in order to examine class differences and similarities in choice of school and choice of childcare. The authors argue that there is every reason to believe that in many circumstances, within its particular mechanisms and practices, choice…
Descriptors: Social Class, Indigenous Knowledge, Social Differences, Social Status
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
Braun, Annette; Vincent, Carol; Ball, Stephen J. – Journal of Education Policy, 2008
This paper explores the ways in which working class mothers negotiate mothering and paid work. Drawing on interviews with 70 families with pre-school children, we examine how caring and working responsibilities are conceptualised and presented in mothers' narratives. Mothers showed a high degree of commitment to paid work and, in contrast to…
Descriptors: Working Class, Middle Class, Mothers, Family Work Relationship
Download full textVincent, Carol – 1996
This paper examines the concept of "empowerment" and analyzes contrasting perspectives on the empowerment of parents that have informed developments at national and local levels in the United Kingdom and also in the United States and other countries. Empirical data illustrate the limited impact these approaches have on a group of…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Low Income Groups
