Involved fatherhood? Exploring the educational work of middle‐class men

Gottzén, Lucas

doi:10.1080/09540253.2010.527829

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“…Although the research does not allow us to draw conclusions about the variables that cause low father involvement, with respect to mothers in the education of children, the consistency with which this phenomenon occurs suggests that there are cultural beliefs and practices that allow fathers to play a secondary role with respect to the upbringing and education of children (Gottzén, 2011;Newland et al, 2013).…”

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Differences in the Participation of Parents in the Education of Mexican High School Students: Relation with Gender and Level of Studies

Cuervo¹,

Amezaga²,

Martínez

et al. 2014

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The purposes of the study consisted of describing the profiles of subgroups of the parents of high school students based on their participation in the education of their children and establish the relation of these profiles with the gender and level of studies of fathers and mothers. By using a simple random sampling, 374 parents of high school students were selected to participate; of these, 173 (46.2%) questionnaires were answered by fathers and 201 (53.7%) by mothers. By using a K-means cluster analysis, two subgroups of parents were identified and denominated by their participation as "Low Involvement" (n = 205) and "Moderate Involvement" (n = 169) respectively, which presented differences in all the types of participation evaluated. However, in both groups a similar profile was identified, which is characterized by a high participation in aspects related to education at home and a low level with regard to aspects concerning school management. Furthermore, a relationship was found between females and higher education, with a greater involvement in the education of children. It is concluded that diverse difficulties exist in families who participate within the school management.

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confidence: 96%

Differences in the Participation of Parents in the Education of Mexican High School Students: Relation with Gender and Level of Studies

Cuervo¹,

Amezaga²,

Martínez

et al. 2014

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“…As gender essentialism dominated among the majority of the parents, power structures were reproduced, giving priority to the fathers' occupational conditions (Gottzén, 2011).…”

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Practices in home–school cooperation – a gendered story?

Widding¹

2013

Teaching Education

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Based on 30 interviews with teachers and parents conducted in a Swedish compulsory school, this article discusses the current growing body of research on home-school relations that stress the importance of parents' engagement and involvement as a key factor that influences pupils' academic performance. The focus is on gendered practices in home-school relationships. Thus, cooperation between home and school is paramount as questions of what type of community programs that promote family-community partnerships are explored. The study analyzes the construction of a cooperation practice that operates in two versions and affects performativity practices in both home and school, emphasizing a joint teacher-mother responsibility discourse as it draws on feminist poststructural theories and discourse analysis. The results indicate that both parents and teachers express attitudes that may raise questions whether they, despite the mission to counteract traditional gender patterns, in fact are dependent and rely on a cooperation practice in which mothers are made particularly responsible and thus contribute to asymmetric gender patterns.

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“…It is noteworthy that the phrase “parental involvement” obscures the gendered allocation and meanings of much of this extra work. Notwithstanding the active approach to fathering of some men (Gottzén 2011), feminist analyses have pointed to the fact most of this “time‐consuming, demanding and stressful” duty (Hutchison 2012, 196) is done by women, and the importance of its completion has become embedded in class‐specific concepts of good mothering (O’Brien 2008). We label this responsibility as a “fourth shift” as, in the adult‐worker model characteristic of many neoliberal states, women are already held responsible for their first shift in paid employment, a second shift of unpaid labour in the home (Hochschild 1989), and a third shift in education or training (as life‐long learning becomes increasingly important to economic well‐being) (Kramarae 2001).…”

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Parental involvement in children's learning: Mothers' fourth shift, social class, and the growth of state intervention in family life

Holloway

Pimlott‐Wilson

2013

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Nation states across the global North are restructuring their education systems. This process has changed the relationship between school and home, with an increasing onus being placed on parents to involve themselves in their children's education. The article explores what mothers with different social class positions think about state attempts to enrol them in the education of their primary‐aged children (ages 4–11), and considers their experience of school curriculum events designed to encourage and guide their help for children's learning within the home. Mothers’ support for this form of educational restructuring is widespread, but motivations for, and experiences of, involvement vary significantly between higher‐, middle‐ and low‐income schools. This matters as parental involvement not only increases mothers’ workloads—adding a fourth shift to the existing demands of paid labour, domestic work, and their own education/training—but also risks widening social inequality as middle‐class children potentially benefit more than their working class counterparts. In conclusion, the article emphasizes the need for geographies of education to: explore parents’ gendered and classed engagement with education; trace the sectors’ changing spatiality in the context of growing links between different sites of learning; and produce geographies that look both inward into the education system and outward at its importance in wider society.

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Involved fatherhood? Exploring the educational work of middle‐class men

Cited by 31 publications

References 29 publications

Differences in the Participation of Parents in the Education of Mexican High School Students: Relation with Gender and Level of Studies

Differences in the Participation of Parents in the Education of Mexican High School Students: Relation with Gender and Level of Studies

Practices in home–school cooperation – a gendered story?

Parental involvement in children's learning: Mothers' fourth shift, social class, and the growth of state intervention in family life

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