Mothering for schooling
By: Alison I. Griffith, Dorothy E. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Dorothy E., 1926-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The critical social thought series; Critical social thought
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Education -- Parent participation -- United States -- Longitudinal studies; Mothers -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Longitudinal studies; Women in education -- United States -- Longitudinal studies; Feminism and education -- United States
Genres: Longitudinal studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-148) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The research; title: Downtown school; title: Uptown school; title: The historical trajectory of inequality; title: Outline of the book; title: Women and the making of the new middle class; title: The historical trajectory of mothering and schooling; title: A new middle class; title: Women, schooling, and the intergenerational continuities of the new middle class; title: The cycle reproducing the new middle class; title: Concluding comments; title: The mothering discourse; title: Discovering discourse; title: Inventing the mothering discourse; title: The moral logic of the mothering discourse; title: The mothering discourse in our interviews; title: Time, scheduling, and coordinating the uncoordinated; title: Constructing the school day; title: The school day : getting there on time; title: The school day : lunch time; title: The school day : coming home; title: The school day at school; title: Conclusion; title: Complementary educational work; title: Complementary educational work : a contribution to the school; title: The full-time housewives; title: Educational work as a priority; title: Diversified routines; title: Flexible routines; title: Not strongly school oriented; title: Complementary educational work : employed mothers and fathers; title: Educational work as a priority; title: Flexible routines; title: Not strongly school oriented; title: Summary; title: Fathers' involvement in complementary educational work; title: Conclusion; title: Uptown and downtown in maltby : school and board perspectives; title: Teachers; title: The administrators; title: Conclusion; title: Inequality and educational change; title: Education and the changing regime of accumulation; title: Changing family organization; title: Conclusion.