Concerted Cultivation and Academic Achievement : How Social Class Impacts Student Success

ISBN-13: 9783639110272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 64 str.

Jeremy Redford

Opis

Anne Lareau (2003) argues that parents child-rearingpractices have a profound effect on academic and lateroccupational success for children, even holding constant such importantfactors as gender, race and school effects. She says thatsocial class impacts these child-rearing practices and that middle-classfamilies use a specific type of practice called concertedcultivation. Concerted cultivation involves parents organizing children sdaily activities, using reasoning skills in talking with children, andteaching them how to interact with the institutions around them. Using the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) of 1988,the current study tests the theoretical validity of concertedcultivation. The results show that concerted cultivation significantlypredicts both student GPA and standardized test scores. Amongstthe elements of concerted cultivation, parent and student habitus, inthe form of expectations, play the largest roles. This bookwould be an important read for educators or academics studyingthe ways that social class impacts the life chances of youths inAmerica''s schools.

O autorze

EDUCATION: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2007,
M.S. Sociology GPA: 3.8/4.0, Longwood University, Farmville, VA,
2001, B.S. Sociology and Psychology, GPA: 3.6/4.0, Magna Cum Laude