Parental collaboration in relation to children's school lives - advanced regulation or an opportunity for solidarity?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Parental collaboration in relation to children's school lives - advanced regulation or an opportunity for solidarity?

AU - Hojholt, Charlotte

AU - Kousholt, Dorte

PY - 2019/9

Y1 - 2019/9

N2 - Parental collaboration is both promoted for enhancing children's performance and criticized for reproducing educational inequality. The issue of parental collaboration, thus, presents an opportunity to discuss theoretical differences in current debates about education, notably the educational consequences of social background and governmentality. The article emphasizes the conflictual nature of children's school lives and analyzes the social interplay between the involved subjects, who are connected through their engagement in common matters and concerns. Our analysis challenges approaches inspired by Bourdieu that analyze the social reproduction of inequality in terms of discrepancies between parental style and the culture of the school. It also raises questions about the Foucauldian perspective which regards policies and practices of parental collaboration as means to govern parents. Through a discussion of these analyses, the article shows how different ways of conceptualizing parental collaboration offer different opportunities for organizing collaboration and dealing with the historical problems of the school.

AB - Parental collaboration is both promoted for enhancing children's performance and criticized for reproducing educational inequality. The issue of parental collaboration, thus, presents an opportunity to discuss theoretical differences in current debates about education, notably the educational consequences of social background and governmentality. The article emphasizes the conflictual nature of children's school lives and analyzes the social interplay between the involved subjects, who are connected through their engagement in common matters and concerns. Our analysis challenges approaches inspired by Bourdieu that analyze the social reproduction of inequality in terms of discrepancies between parental style and the culture of the school. It also raises questions about the Foucauldian perspective which regards policies and practices of parental collaboration as means to govern parents. Through a discussion of these analyses, the article shows how different ways of conceptualizing parental collaboration offer different opportunities for organizing collaboration and dealing with the historical problems of the school.

KW - Parental collaboration

KW - subjectivity

KW - participation

KW - situated inequality

KW - conflictual social practice

KW - SOCIAL-CLASS

KW - FAMILY

KW - HOME

KW - RESPONSIBILITY

KW - INVOLVEMENT

KW - PSYCHOLOGY

KW - MATTERS

KW - Forældre/Forældresamarbejde

KW - Pædagogisk psykologi

KW - Grundskole

KW - Social ulighed

KW - Social udsathed/arv

U2 - 10.1080/09518398.2019.1635284

DO - 10.1080/09518398.2019.1635284

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0951-8398

VL - 32

SP - 1048

EP - 1063

JO - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

JF - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

IS - 8

ER -