"Abstract
This article explores the widespread emphasis on parental involvement in education from the perspectives of children and young people. In contrast to the conceptualisation of children as variable social actors, policy initiatives to link home and school more effectively, and research-generated typologies of parental involvement, unthinkingly familialise and institutionalise children by ignoring any part they may play in parental involvement in their education. Drawing on data from our study of children's understandings of home-school relations, we develop and elaborate a typology that centres on the complex ways that children and young people talk about creating, acceding to, and resisting their parents' involvement in their education. The socially patterned differences between the children and young people's understandings and experiences demonstrate how the broad social processes of familialisation, institutionalisation and individualisation are, in fact, concretely lived and negotiated in variable ways. Nevertheless, there are also some commonalities in children and young people's resistance around notions of privacy."
WattaPalaver Milney
04 January 2013 1:05pm
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@Milney -
Step 4 - An entire generation's education made suitable for the future of them all, preventing some people buying achievement for their "dumb" children which has produced the overlord class we have now
Fixed your unsurpassably moronic comment for you
Milney WattaPalaver
04 January 2013 1:33pm
18
@WattaPalaver -
Fixed your unsurpassably moronic comment for you
Afraid not "chum" - your comment already reached the pinacle of moronic statements, by definition it was unsurpassable.
Your "fixes" amount to sticking Children in proscribed educational "gulags" in an attempt to protect little darlings from feeling "dumb". Not only is this fascist, but it opens the door to brainwashing from the state alongside a race to the bottom that will leave all our children with such an abyssmal education that they could only scratch thier "sign" on a piece of paper authorising thier new owners to mistreat them. As an added bonus, your system might also decide to give them the ability to use thier fingers to count to 10 so they can remember thier chores in the labour camps. If your feeling geneours
"Abstract
In a cross-cultural comparison of parental beliefs, this study asked a sample of 48 immigrant Chinese and 50 European American mothers of preschool-aged children their perspectives regarding the role of parenting in their children's school success. In their responses, the Chinese mothers conveyed (a) the great degree of value they place on education, (b) the high investment and sacrifice they feel they need to offer, (c) the more direct intervention approach to their children's schooling and learning, and (d) a belief that they can play a significant role in the school success of their children. On the other hand, European American mothers primarily expressed (a) a negation of the importance of academics or academic skills (instead emphasizing the importance of social skills), (b) a less "directive" approach to learning explained under the "facilitative" model, and (c) a concern for building their children's self-esteem."