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Sheng, Xiaoming – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2020
There is little literature which provides any analysis regarding the relationship between cultural order and home education. Research reported here found that home education has grown steadily in recent decades and that parents' motivation for home education was closely associated with cultural order. It was noticeable that Christian and Confucian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Cultural Influences, Parent Attitudes
Sheng, Xiaoming – Educational Review, 2019
Home education, in particular Confucian home education, has been increasing steadily in China over the past decades. However, research relating to home-schooling families has largely been ignored. In particular, the literature grounded in empirical study and focusing on the development of Confucian home education is negligible in the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Confucianism, Home Schooling, Cultural Influences
Sheng, Xiaoming – Education and Urban Society, 2015
This study conducted a case study of homeschooling in order to provide in-depth information regarding the demographic characteristics of homeschooling parents, the motivations and the process of practicing it and its outcomes in Shanghai. The public and the policy-makers, and education officials have had little substantive information in relation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Case Studies, Parents
Sheng, Xiaoming – Gender and Education, 2012
This article employs the concept of cultural capital to examine the ways in which social difference in terms of gender are played out in parental involvement in children's schooling and higher education choice. The intention has been to provide an in-depth analysis of the ways in which Chinese mothers and fathers are involved in the process.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mothers, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement