Social Class and Educational Inequality - The Impact of Parents and Schools

Informationen zum Autor Iram Siraj is Professor of Education in the Department of Early Years and Primary Education in the Institute of Education, University of London. She is also Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne, Waikato and with some part-time secondment to the University of Wollongong, Australia. Aziza Mayo completed a doctorate at the Department for Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam and is currently Professor of Education at the University of Applied Sciences Leiden, Netherlands. Klappentext This book examines the impact that parents and schools have on disadvantaged children who perform against the odds. Zusammenfassung For a society aiming to 'narrow the gap' between the educational attainment of children from disadvantaged and more privileged backgrounds! we need to understand how and why certain children manage to succeed against the odds. This book examines the impact of social-class! parenting and education on fifty children sampled from a bigger longitudinal study. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Child and Family Case Studies in the context of the EPPSE study; 2. Studying learning life-courses; 3. Methods and sample of the Child and Family Case Studies; 4. Cultural repertoires of childrearing across and within social classes; 5. Children as active agents of their own learning; 6. Powerful parenting and home learning; 7. Parenting towards higher aspirations; 8. Inspiring success in the early years and school environment; 9. Gateways to enhanced social, cultural and emotional capital; 10. Concluding discussion: promoting agency and advocacy.

Product details

• Authors: Aziza Mayo, Mayo Aziza, Iram Siraj, Iram (Institute of Education Siraj, Iram Mayo Siraj, Siraj Iram
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107562301
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56230-1
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Educational strategies & policy, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Educational strategies and policy: inclusion, Educational strategies and policy