Mothering for Schooling

ISBN-13: 9780415950534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 176 str.

Alison I. Griffith; Griffith Griffith; Allison Griffith

Opis

This book looks at the relationship between the work women do with and for their children in relation to schooling. The authors break their analysis down by class lines, examining the ways in which women's economic positions further affects the experiences their children have. While many books have looked at the relationship between class differences and schooling itself, Smith and Griffith's work stands apart in its examination of the hidden gendered labor behind the scenes of school success and failure. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes the effects mothers' work has on educational systems as a whole and the ways in which inequalities of educational opportunities are reproduced. Ultimately, the authors argue that mothering work will only intensify as resources are withdrawn from schools and as governments shift much of the work of teaching and learning to families.

Spis treści

Series Editor's Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Women and the Making of the New Middle Class 3. The Mothering Discourse 4. Time, Scheduling, and Coordinating the Uncoordinated 5. Complementary Educational Work 6. Complementary Educational Work: Employed Mothers and Fathers 7. Uptown and Downtown in Maltby School and Board Perspectives 8. Inequality and Educational Change

O autorze

Alison Griffith is associate professor, Faculty of Education, York University.
Dorothy Smith is professor emerita, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE, University of Toronto.