Parental and community level correlates of participation in out-of-school activities among children living in low income neighborhoods

Coulton, Claudia J.; Irwin, Molly

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2008.08.003

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“…Previous research has highlighted the growth of commercial out-of-school activity providers and class differences in participation rates (Coulton and Irwin 2009;Levey 2009), but here we emphasize the importance of considering the mixed economy of provision-including that organized by state, voluntary, and commercial organizations-in both in-school and out-of-school contexts. An examination of these data reveals that middle-class children have greater access to enrichment activities than their working-class counterparts both in school (70 percent vs. 56 percent) and, even more starkly, off school premises (95 percent vs. 52 percent).…”

Section: Children's Enrichment Activities Parenting Practices and Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Enriching Children, Institutionalizing Childhood? Geographies of Play, Extracurricular Activities, and Parenting in England

Holloway

Pimlott‐Wilson

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

119

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Geographical research on children, youth, and families has done much to highlight the ways in which children's lives have changed over the last twenty-five years. A key strand of research concerns children's play and traces, in the Global North, a decline in children's independent access to, and mobility through, public space. This article shifts the terrain of that debate from an analysis of what has been lost to an exploration of what has replaced it. Specifically, it focuses on children's participation in enrichment activities, including both individual and collective extracurricular sporting, cultural, and leisure opportunities in England. The research reveals that middle-class children have much higher participation rates in enrichment activities than their working-class counterparts. Parents value enrichment activities in very similar ways across the class spectrum-seeing them as fun, healthy, and social opportunities. The ability to pay for enrichment, however, means that it is incorporated into, and transforms, middle-class family life in ways not open to working-class families. Nevertheless, support across the class spectrum for these instrumental forms of play that institutionalize childhood in school, community, and commercial spaces leads to calls for subsidized provision for low-income children through schools. The article thus traces the "enrichment" and "institutionalization" of childhood and draws out the implications of this for how we think about play, education, parenting, and class in geography.La investigación geográfica relacionada con niños, jóvenes y familias ha contribuido mucho en destacar las maneras como las vidas de los chicos han cambiado durante los pasados veinticinco años. Un cabo clave de la investigación a este respecto se relaciona con el juego de los niños e indica, en el Norte Global, una declinación en el acceso independiente de los niños al espacio público y a su movilidad a través del mismo. Este artículo cambia el escenario del debate, remplazando el análisis sobre lo que se ha perdido con una exploración de aquello que lo ha remplazado. Se enfoca específicamente en la participación de los niños en actividades enriquecedoras en Inglaterra, incluyendo a la vez oportunidades individuales y colectivas extracurriculares en aspectos deportivos, culturales y de esparcimiento. La investigación revela que los niños de clase media tienen tasas de participación mucho más altas en actividades de enriquecimiento que sus contrapartes de la clase obrera. Los padres valoran las actividades enriquecedoras de modo muy similar a través del espectro de clases-considerándolas como oportunidades divertidas, saludables y sociales. Sin embargo, la capacidad de pagar por el enriquecimiento significa su incorporación en la vida de la familia de clase media, transformándola, en términos no accesibles para las familias de clase obrera. No obstante, el apoyo que se presta a través del espectro de clase para estas formas

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Section: Children's Enrichment Activities Parenting Practices and Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Enriching Children, Institutionalizing Childhood? Geographies of Play, Extracurricular Activities, and Parenting in England

Holloway

Pimlott‐Wilson

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

119

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“…Research on the origins of citizenship has analyzed correlates of civic participation such as knowledge about government and political processes (Furnham and Stacey 1991). In families with a higher socio-economic status, parents are more connected with social networks and institutions, thus knowing and valuing community organizations that involve adolescents, and assisting their children in accessing organized out-of-school activities (Coulton and Irwin 2009). Socio-economic status, in particular, relates to parental knowledge of opportunities in the local community and easier access to these resources.…”

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Family Affluence, School and Neighborhood Contexts and Adolescents’ Civic Engagement: A Cross‐National Study

Lenzi

Vieno

Perkins

et al. 2012

American J of Comm Psychol

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Research on youth civic engagement focuses on individual-level predictors. We examined individual- and school-level characteristics, including family affluence, democratic school social climate and perceived neighborhood social capital, in their relation to civic engagement of 15-year-old students. Data were taken from the 2006 World Health Organization Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey. A sample of 8,077 adolescents in 10th grade from five countries (Belgium, Canada, Italy, Romania, England) were assessed. Multilevel models were analyzed for each country and across the entire sample. Results showed that family affluence, democratic school climate and perceived neighborhood social capital positively related to participation in community organizations. These links were stronger at the aggregate contextual than individual level and varied by country. Canadian youth participated most and Romanian youth least of the five countries. Gender predicted engagement in two countries (girls participate more in Canada, boys in Italy). Findings showed significant contributions of the social environment to adolescents' engagement in their communities.

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“…We aggregated survey responses to the block group level to measure neighborhood perceptions of safety, social cohesion, informal social control, and collective efficacy. Neighborhood safety was measured using a scale developed by Coulton and colleagues (Coulton & Irwin, ). Social cohesion, informal social control, collective efficacy, and physical and social disorder were measured with scales from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (Sampson et al., ).…”

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Child health in low-income neighborhoods: The unexpected relationship with neighborhood disorder and other aspects of distress

Zuberi

Teixeira

2017

J. Community Psychol.

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There is substantial evidence linking child health and neighborhood of residence. However, most studies focus on poverty, paying less attention to other social and environmental factors that vary across low‐income neighborhoods. Using data from the Making Connections initiative, we examine the relationship between child health and neighborhood factors, including safety, social cohesion, informal social control, collective efficacy, disorder, and poverty, across a sample of children living in low‐income neighborhoods (N = 3,013). We use multilevel modeling to account for clustering at the household and block level. Results show that neighborhood disorder is related to child health in an unexpected direction: More disorder is related to lower odds of a child having fair or poor health. Similarly, informal social control and safety are related to greater odds of child fair or poor health. We underscore the importance of neighborhood conditions for child health and highlight the unexpected direction of these relationships.

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Parental and community level correlates of participation in out-of-school activities among children living in low income neighborhoods

Cited by 29 publications

References 32 publications

Enriching Children, Institutionalizing Childhood? Geographies of Play, Extracurricular Activities, and Parenting in England

Enriching Children, Institutionalizing Childhood? Geographies of Play, Extracurricular Activities, and Parenting in England

Family Affluence, School and Neighborhood Contexts and Adolescents’ Civic Engagement: A Cross‐National Study

Child health in low-income neighborhoods: The unexpected relationship with neighborhood disorder and other aspects of distress

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