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'The children have only got one education and you have to make sure it's a good one': parenting and parent–school relations in a neoliberal age

Vincent, CJ; (2017) 'The children have only got one education and you have to make sure it's a good one': parenting and parent–school relations in a neoliberal age. Gender and Education , 29 (5) pp. 541-557. 10.1080/09540253.2016.1274387. Green open access

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Abstract

This article draws on data from 20 years of qualitative projects with parents to discuss and analyse four issues. The first is the apparent responsibilities of parents to deliver both the school and home setting which will provide ‘the best’ for their children. Second, the gendering of parental responsibilities. Third, I investigate how class and ethnicity shape parents’ relationships with educational institutions. Drawing on Bourdieu’s conceptual framework, I consider how parents’ habitus and the forms and volumes of capital they both possess and can activate inform their struggles for position in the field of schooling. Fourth, I seek to complicate the binary between middle-class and working-class parents with the former commonly assumed to be powerful and effective in the field of schooling, and the latter powerless and ineffective. I conclude by considering the direction of future research on home–school relations.

Type: Article
Title: 'The children have only got one education and you have to make sure it's a good one': parenting and parent–school relations in a neoliberal age
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2016.1274387
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1274387
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Sociology, parents, social class, race and ethnicities, motherhood
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1536345
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