Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement

Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement
Author: Siu-hang Kong
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2023-01-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811990328

This book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural capital model as a theoretical framework for exploring how students in Beijing and Hong Kong perceive parental influences—their parents’ cultural capital and support—on their participation in musical activities. By studying students’ perceptions of their parents’ cultural capital and support for their musical activities, this book revisits the applicability of Bourdieu’s cultural capital model in the contemporary Chinese context and reveals how inequality in terms of parental cultural capital governs parents’ support and influences the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital, which in turn contributes to inequality in terms of students’ cultural capital.

The Role of Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement in Educational Achievement and Implications for Public Policy

The Role of Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement in Educational Achievement and Implications for Public Policy
Author: Justin J. Underwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2011
Genre: Academic achievement
ISBN:

Using the theory of social and cultural reproduction originally posited by Pierre Bourdieu, I test the idea that social status and individual culture affect academic achievement. The data used for this analysis was from the first panel of the Education Longitudinal Study (ELS), a survey sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and based on a nationally representative sample of 16,719 tenth-grade respondents in 2002. As one would expect, the measure of student's ability was the only variable that remained significant throughout for both classes and racial groups throughout all statistical models. The difference in the importance of upper class students and lower class is dependent on race. These findings are bolstered by other studies that show parental involvement has been shown to mediate the effects of race and socioeconomic resources in achievement gaps it could also be used as a possible strategy for reducing the achievement gap even in the presence of cultural capital.

Handbook of Research on Social Inequality and Education

Handbook of Research on Social Inequality and Education
Author: Wisdom, Sherrie
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1522591109

In comparing one public school to another, discussions frequently include talk concerning the socioeconomics of a school or district, which then leads to talk about the advantages that one socioeconomic setting has over another. Educators tend to agree that low academic achievement frequently associated with a low socioeconomic status is a characteristic difficult to resolve for a population of school children. The Handbook of Research on Social Inequality and Education is a critical reference source that provides insights into social influences on school and educational settings. Featuring an array of topics including online learning, social mobility, and teacher preparation, this book is excellent for educational leaders, educational researchers, teachers, academicians, administrators, instructional designers, and teacher preparation programs.

Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement

Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement
Author: Williams, Richard D.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799888622

Exceptional education, also known as special education, is often grounded within exclusive and deficit mindsets and practices. Research has shown perpetual challenges with disproportionate identification of culturally and linguistically diverse students, especially Black and Indigenous students. Research has also shown perpetual use of inappropriate placement in more restrictive learning environments for marginalized students, often starting in Pre-K. Exceptional education practitioners often engage in practices that place disability before ability in instruction, behavior management, identification and use of related services, and educational setting placement decisions. These practices, among others, have resulted in a crippled system that situates students with exceptionalities in perceptions of deviance, ineptitude, and perpetuate systemic oppression. The Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement unites current theory and practices to communicate the next steps to end the current harmful practices and experiences of exceptional students through critical analysis of current practices, mindsets, and policies. With the information this book provides, practitioners have the power to implement direct and explicit actions across levels to end the harm and liberate our most vulnerable populations. Covering topics such as accelerated learning, educator preparation programs, and intersectional perspectives, this book is a dynamic resource for teachers in exceptional education, general teachers, social workers, psychologists, educational leaders, organizational leaders, the criminal justice system, law enforcement agencies, government agencies, policymakers, curriculum designers, testing companies, current educational practitioners, administrators, post-grad students, professors, researchers, and academicians.

Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century

Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century
Author: Barbara Schneider
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2018-10-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319766945

This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems, including network analyses and school and teacher effects. Additionally, the book explores the changing landscape of higher education institutions, their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by differing postsecondary education pathways. Written by leading sociologists and rising stars in the field, each of the chapters is embedded in theory, but contemporary and futuristic in its implications. This Handbook serves as a blueprint for identifying new work for sociologists of education and other scholars and policymakers trying to understand many of the problems of inequality in education and what is needed to address them.

The Great Transformation

The Great Transformation
Author: Judith Bessant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317286294

While artificial intelligence (AI), robots, bio-technologies and digital media are transforming work, culture, and social life, there is little understanding of or agreement about the scope and significance of this change. This new interpretation of the ‘great transformation’ uses history and evolutionary theory to highlight the momentous shift in human consciousness taking place. Only by learning from recent crises and rejecting technological determinism will governments and communities redesign social arrangements that ensure we all benefit from the new and emerging technologies. The book documents the transformations under way in financial markets, entertainment, and medicine, affecting all aspects of work and social life. It draws on historical sociology and co-evolutionary theory arguing that the radical evolution of human consciousness and social life now under way is comparable with, if not greater than, the agrarian revolution (10000 BCE), the explosion of science, philosophy, and religion in the Axial Age (600 BCE), and the recent Industrial Revolution. Turning to recent major socio-economic crisis, and asking what can be learnt from them, the answer is we cannot afford this time around to repeat the failures of elites and theoretical systems such as economics to attend appropriately to radical change. We need to think beyond the constraints of determinist and reductionist explanations and embrace the idea of deep freedom. This book will appeal to educators, social scientists, policy-makers, business leaders, and students. It concludes with social design principles that can inform deliberative processes and new social arrangements that ensure everyone benefits from the affordances of the new and emerging technologies.

Parental Involvement and Academic Success

Parental Involvement and Academic Success
Author: William Jeynes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113691286X

Providing an objective assessment of the influence of parental involvement and what aspects of parental participation can best maximize the educational outcomes of students, this volume is structured to guide readers to a thorough understanding of the history, practice, theories, and impact of parental involvement. Cutting-edge research and meta-analyses offer vital insight into how different types of students benefit from parental engagement and what types of parental involvement help the most. Unique among works on the topic, Parental Involvement and Academic Success: uses meta-analysis to enable readers to understand what the overall body of research on a given topic indicates examines research results in terms of their practical implications focuses significantly on the influence of parental involvement on minority students’ academic success Important reading for anyone involved in home-school relations/parental involvement in education, this book is highly relevant for courses devoted to or which include treatment of the topic.

Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement

Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement
Author: Siu-hang Kong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN: 9789811990335

This book uses Pierre Bourdieu's cultural capital model as a theoretical framework for exploring how students in Beijing and Hong Kong perceive parental influences-their parents' cultural capital and support-on their participation in musical activities. By studying students' perceptions of their parents' cultural capital and support for their musical activities, this book revisits the applicability of Bourdieu's cultural capital model in the contemporary Chinese context and reveals how inequality in terms of parental cultural capital governs parents' support and influences the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital, which in turn contributes to inequality in terms of students' cultural capital.

Family Cultural Capital and Student Achievement

Family Cultural Capital and Student Achievement
Author: Cheng Yong Tan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811544913

This book focuses on the relationship between cultural capital and student achievement. It fills the gap in the literature on large-scale quantitative studies of the effects of cultural capital. In particular, the review of empirical evidence presented, especially that from studies analyzing large-scale, international data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), makes a substantial contribution to the literature. This review addresses the knowledge gap on reviews investigating the effects of different forms of cultural capital on student achievement as compared to the more established evidence base in the related field of socioeconomic status.

School, Family, And Community Interaction

School, Family, And Community Interaction
Author: Cheryl L Fagnano
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000310744

Most Americans will agree that, among other things, a quality education begins with meaningful interaction between families and schools. Yet as the contributors to this volume point out, several aspects of contemporary American society undermine the critical relationship among schools, families and their communities, and these conditions contribute