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Auðardóttir, Auður Magndís – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
The aim of this study is to analyse working-class mothers' narratives of social interactions among parents at their children's schools. A special focus is paid to the emotions that arise in such interactions and their role in the reproduction of class. A narrative analysis of six stories of white, working-class mothers of compulsory school aged…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Working Class, Mothers, Parent Participation
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Emilia Fakou – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
This text aims to demonstrate the contribution of working-class mothers to supporting their children at school and the social factors that determine the effectiveness of the practices these mothers adopt in their efforts. The mothers' involvement in education is a complex and demanding work. It entails practices directly related to schooling, such…
Descriptors: Working Class, Mothers, Parent Role, Social Influences
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Jazmin A. Muro – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
Previous research highlights how schools value white, middle-class modes of parental involvement, we know less about Latinx parents' involvement in their children's schools. This article compares the participatory patterns of Latinx and non-Latinx white parents whose children attend a Spanish/English dual-immersion school in Los Angeles. Drawing…
Descriptors: Parent Associations, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Immersion Programs, Racial Segregation
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Yu, Hui – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
This paper extends existing Bourdieusian theorisations of the educational involvement of working-class parents by adding the less-examined axes of rural origin and migration status with an intersectional approach. It focusses on the 'labourer' families involved in internal rural-urban migration in China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Migration, Migrants, Rural Areas, Urban Areas
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Wilson, Suzanne; McGuire, Kim – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
Bourdieu argued that class-based inequalities influenced educational outcomes and this paper illustrates the relevance of Bourdieu's concepts in understanding one specific community. A wider study by the authors used the concept of habitus to identify factors which impacted on the participants--predominantly white working-class…
Descriptors: Whites, Working Class, Mothers, Mother Attitudes
Manuel Hercules – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand working-class parental involvement in the education of Latino secondary students in the U.S. Literature indicates that most Latino parents want their children to enroll in a higher education institution. However, statistics and research show that enrollment rates to a higher educational…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Hispanic American Students, Secondary School Students, Success
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Huang, Hua; Lin, Xun – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
Based on an ethnographic study, this article presents the class-based disparities of Chinese parents' usage of "WeChat," the dominating social networking mobile application in China, in their educational involvement. We find that middle-class parents are the privileged ones who have exploited the use of "WeChat" not only as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Equal Education, Social Media
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Wilson, Suzanne; Worsley, Aidan – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
International authors have argued that social class inequalities can influence parental engagement in education. Lareau argued that middle-class families possess the resources to actively cultivate their children to succeed academically, whereas working-class and poor families feel they lack such resources and allow their children to develop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Social Differences, Working Class
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Delès, Romain – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
The period of confinement in the spring of 2020 is of great interest in highlighting the parental work of educational support. While parental support is usually more diffuse, and is secondary in relation to what is done at school, occurring at different moments of daily life, home schooling during lockdown revealed new ways of helping and framing…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation, Parent Student Relationship, Home Schooling
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Barg, Katherin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article analyses the association between social class and parent-­initiated contact with teachers. Hypotheses are derived from Lareau's theory on 'concerted cultivation' and status maintenance theory on rational educational decision-making. Data from a national survey on French students traversing secondary school are used to study social…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Differences, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Heller, Rafael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Kappan editor Rafael Heller interviews Annette Lareau about her research into different experiences of childhood and family life. In her observations of families of different social classes, she learned that upper-middle-class families approach parenting as an act of "concerted cultivation" requiring ongoing attention, making them more…
Descriptors: Child Development, Family Life, Interviews, Social Class
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Bertrand, Melanie; Freelon, Rhoda; Rogers, John – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
School principals, contending with competing characterizations of parents in education policy and society, may view parents in a number of ways. Two common understandings portray parents as authentic partners or, in contrast, simply supporters of the school's agenda. This paper explores these characterizations by considering the possible link…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Social Attitudes, Parents
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Turner, Alison M. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2016
Two-way immersion schools are growing in popularity throughout the United States. An emerging issue is to what extent these schools are able to connect with parents from multiple communities. This article describes an effort to connect parents with the school and one another through parent language classes at a Spanish/English two-way immersion…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Elementary School Students, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Berrington, Ann; Roberts, Steven; Tammes, Peter – British Educational Research Journal, 2016
Large socio-economic differences in educational attainment and participation in Higher Education (HE) are seen in the United Kingdom (UK). Furthermore, improvements in attainment and in rates of progression to university have been much faster for most ethnic minority groups than for White children. Political rhetoric explains these differences in…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Gender Differences, Social Class, Educational Attainment
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Thirumurthy, Vidya – Childhood Education, 2014
Parents play a key role in children's academic success. In this article, the author describes a sample of India's middle- and working-class parents' involvement in children's academic activities and the nature of support they provide for their children. In each case, everyday activities at home, often replicating school-based activities, indicated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Parent Student Relationship, Middle Class
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