Mothers and education, inside out? : exploring family-education policy and experience

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Mothers and education, inside out? : exploring family-education policy and experience

Miriam David ... [et al.] ; consultant editor, Jo Campling

Macmillan, 1993

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 224-238

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ISBN 9780333565926

Description

This study examines the various aspects of the relationships between mothers and education at different levels in the education system. In particular, mothers of young children in relation to various educational policies are looked at in interaction with their children's schools and teachers, as students themselves in post-school education. The various policy settings and other contexts are addressed in which mothers are situated, as well as exploring their experiences and understandings.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: mothers and education - points of view. Part 1 Women as mediators - mothers and schools: home-school relations, Miriam David
  • standing by the school gate - the boundaries of maternal authority, Jane Ribbens
  • having a word with the teacher - ongoing negotiations across home-school boundaries, Jane Ribbens. Part 2 Women as consumers - mothers and post-school education: home base - policy on the education of women as adults, Mary Hughes
  • "the university" and the "university of life" - boundaries between ways of knowing, Rosalind Edwards
  • shifting status - mothers' higher education and their children's schooling, Rosalind Edwards.
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: pbk ISBN 9780333565933

Description

Examines the various aspects of the relationships between mothers and education at different levels in the education system. In particular, mothers of young children in relation to various educational policies are looked at in interaction with their children's schools and teachers.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: mothers and education - points of view. Part 1 Women as mediators - mothers and schools: home-school relations, Miriam David
  • standing by the school gate - the boundaries of maternal authority, Jane Ribbens
  • having a word with the teacher - ongoing negotiations across home-school boundaries, Jane Ribbens. Part 2 Women as consumers - mothers and post-school education: home base - policy on the education of women as adults, Mary Hughes
  • "the university" and the "university of life" - boundaries between ways of knowing, Rosalind Edwards
  • shifting status - mothers' higher education and their children's schooling, Rosalind Edwards.

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