Volunteering Mothers on Elementary School Campus---A Facilitator or Impediment for Educational Equality?
碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 中山學術研究所 === 95 === Home-school relations are critical in determining how the educational process interacts with and is shaped by various social, cultural, political, and economic institutions. I focus my research on the educational involvement of mothers who volunteer at the eleme...
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6zaaby |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 中山學術研究所 === 95 === Home-school relations are critical in determining how the educational process interacts with and is shaped by various social, cultural, political, and economic institutions. I focus my research on the educational involvement of mothers who volunteer at the elementary level in both the U.S. and Taiwan to seek a cross-cultural perspective on the structural inequalities embedded within home-school relations through the examination of mothers’ roles on the one hand and the school’s expectations on the other hand. By interviewing volunteering mothers and school administrators at one elementary school in each country, I discovered differences as well as similarities, reflected in the dominant mothering and educational discourses in the two countries. This qualitative cross-cultural study suggests a need to incorporate cultural and institutional variables currently outside of social and cultural capital-based frameworks in understanding the dynamics of home-school relations.
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