Parentocracy Revisited: Still a Relevant Concept for Understanding Middle Class Educational Advantage?

DeWiele, Corinne E. Barrett; Edgerton, Jason D.

doi:10.1007/s10780-015-9261-7

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“…This advantage is further enhanced by the marketization of education and subsequent increased parental influence in school choice Oría et al 2007;Benson et al 2015). Many parents who are inclined to act proactively in order to improve their children's life opportunities rather than considering that equal opportunities should be offered to all children (Brown 1990;Barrett De Wiele & Edgerton 2016) usually have a similar background (Benson et al 2015).…”

Section: School Choice and Attitudes To Educationmentioning

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School choice and educational attitudes: Spatially uneven neoliberalization in Sweden

Andersson

Abramsson

Malmberg

2021

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The aim of the article is to use survey evidence of school choice and educational attitudes in Sweden to explore how spatial polarization and liberal school reforms have affected the way parents, pupils, and school management think about education. The authors identify a possible polarization of attitudes in Sweden towards the importance of education in general and schools in particular, against the background of a highly liberalized school market, including school choice and rural-urban regional differences in the population's education level. The basis for the analysis is TIMSS 2015 data for pupils in Grade 4 (age group 10-11 years). The results showed that localization of the school was a very important factor in school choice and that localization was more important than parental education and social class. Additionally, the authors tested the association between maths results and the variables attitudes, location, school, and household, and found that a household with a lower proportion of tertiary-educated parents in less central locations could make it difficult for pupils to perform well in mathematics. The authors conclude that in Sweden neoliberalization has been a geographically uneven process with a concentration in the metropolitan areas.

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School choice and educational attitudes: Spatially uneven neoliberalization in Sweden

Andersson

Abramsson

Malmberg

2021

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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“…Fundraised dollars are used to purchase playground equipment, library books, computers, arts performances, yoga classes, field trips, Science workshops, team jerseys, and more (Winsa, 2015). TDSB parents' desire to enhance their children's schools must be understood in the broader context of neoliberal policies and discourses that place responsibility for children's success in school, and more broadly, in a competitive society, on parents (Barrett DeWiele & Edgerton, 2016;Dudley-Marling, 2001). In this context, the ability to provide their children with materials and opportunities perceived to be lacking yet necessary for success will appeal to parents desiring to achieve the neoliberal ideal.…”

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Coordinating Policy Layers of School Fundraising in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: An Institutional Ethnography

Winton

2018

Educational Policy

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In this article, I report findings from an investigation into the politics and coordination of school fundraising in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Theoretically grounded in institutional ethnography and critical policy analysis, the study began from the standpoint of parents asked to give money to their children's school(s). I show how provincial and TDSB funding, parent involvement, fundraising, and school council policies organize parents' experience of school fundraising. I also explore how participating in fundraising enables parents to meet neoliberal expectations of a "good parent" and how through their efforts to secure advantages for their children, fundraising parents are accomplices in the privatization of public education. I conclude by discussing possibilities for intervention into the social organization of school fundraising in Toronto schools.

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“…com a elevada incerteza em relação ao futuro dos jovens BROWN, 1990; VAN ZANTEN, 2005, 2007. Diversos autores têm se referido a uma crescente parentocracia para descrever este fenómeno (BARRETT DEWIELE;EDGERTON, 2016;BROWN;1990;VAN ZANTEN, 2008). A noção de parentocracia é introduzida por Brown (1990) para distinguir uma nova vaga no desenvolvimento sócio-histórico da educação na Grã-Bretanha a partir dos anos 1980, na qual os recursos e a vontade dos pais são tidos como mais importantes para definir o percurso escolar dos alunos, do que as capacidades e o esforço destes últimos.…”

Section: Classe Média E Escola: Parentocracia Reflexividade E Ansiedunclassified

“…Num clima de intensa competição no campo educacional e no mercado de trabalho, no quadro da globalização económica das últimas décadas, os pais da classe média não confiam nos mecanismos meritocráticos da seleção escolar e investem crescentemente o seu capital económico, cultural e social para que os seus filhos alcancem vantagens educacionais (BARRETT DEWIELE;EDGERTON, 2016;BROWN, 1990). Para alguns autores, a necessidade desse papel ativo dos pais na educação e escolarização dos filhos, em que a mera transmissão de capital cultural no meio familiar já não é suficiente para garantir a distinção social e produzir herdeiros (BOURDIEU; PASSERON, 1964), é vista como uma erosão da meritocracia (VAN ZANTEN, 2008) ou uma neomeritocracia (MAGALHÃES; STOER, 2002), e estará na génese de novas formas de reprodução social (BARRETT DEWIELE; EDGERTON, 2016; VAN ZANTEN, 2005).…”

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Exames e lógicas de fabricação de bons alunos nas classes médias

2018

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RESUMONeste texto, analisam-se as opiniões de pais das classes médias urbanas, muito escolarizadas, difundidas na blogosfera, acerca dos exames do 4º ano, no quadro do crescente investimento na educação e escolarização dos filhos protagonizado por esse grupo social. A análise de 38 posts e 311 comentários pertencentes a 29 blogues, publicados entre 2012 e 2015 em páginas portuguesas da internet, evidenciou várias lógicas de fabricação de bons alunos que contrariam a suposta homogeneidade atribuída à relação das classes médias com a escola. Propõese uma tipologia exploratória que procura dar conta de distintas éticas do trabalho escolar, modelos de acompanhamento do trabalho escolar e conceções de criança-aluno coexistentes nesse grupo social. ABSTRACTIn this text, we analyze the opinions of parents from urban middle classes with high school degrees in the blogosphere, disclosed in relation to the 4th year exams, in the context of the growing investment in education and schooling of children carried out by this social group. The analysis of 38 posts and 311 comments, coming from 29 blogs published between 2012 and 2015 on Portuguese Internet pages, showed various thoughts on producing good students. These contradicted the supposed homogeneity attributed to the relationship of the middle class with school. We proposed an exploratory typology that seeks to account for different ethics of school work, models for monitoring the school work, and child-student conceptions coexisting within this social group. RÉSUMÉCe texte analyse les opinions de parents très scolarisés, issus des classes moyennes urbaines, concernant les examens de la quatrième année. Très répandues sur la blogosphère, ces opinions s'inscrivent dans le cadre de l'accroissement des investissements en éducation et de la scolarisation des enfants provenant de ce groupe social. L'analyse de 38 publications et de 311 commentaires appartenant à 29 blogs, publiés entre 2012 et 2015 sur des pages internet en portugais, a montré plusieurs logiques de fabrication de bons élèves qui contredisent l'homogénéité présumée des rapports entre les classes moyennes et l'école. On propose ici une typologie exploratoire visant à rendre compte non seulement des différentes éthiques du travail scolaire, mais aussi des modèles de suivi de ce travail, ainsi que des conceptions de l'enfant-élève coexistantes au sein de ce groupe social. RELATIONS PARENTS-ÉTUDIANTS • CLASSE MOYENNE • RELATIONS ÉCOLE-FAMILLE • RENDEMENT SCOLAIRE EXÁMENES Y LÓGICAS DE FABRICACIÓN DE BUENOS ALUMNOS EN LAS CLASES MEDIAS RESUMENEn este texto, se analizan las opiniones de padres de las clases medias urbanas, muy escolarizadas, difundidas en la blogosfera, acerca de los exámenes del 4º año, en el marco de la creciente inversión en la educación y escolarización de los hijos protagonizada por este grupo social. El análisis de 38 mensajes y 311 comentarios, pertenecientes a 29 blogs, publicados entre 2012 y 2015, en páginas web portuguesas, mostró varias lógicas de fabricación de buenos alumnos que contra...

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Parentocracy Revisited: Still a Relevant Concept for Understanding Middle Class Educational Advantage?

Cited by 44 publications

References 42 publications

School choice and educational attitudes: Spatially uneven neoliberalization in Sweden

School choice and educational attitudes: Spatially uneven neoliberalization in Sweden

Coordinating Policy Layers of School Fundraising in Toronto, Ontario, Canada: An Institutional Ethnography

Exames e lógicas de fabricação de bons alunos nas classes médias

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