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ERIC Number: EJ1295216
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-5692
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Class, Capital, and School Culture: Parental Involvement in Public Schools with Specialised Music Programmes
Lilliedahl, Jonathan
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v42 n2 p245-259 2021
This study examines parental involvement in urban public schools, focusing on how parents in organised school-centred networks support, navigate, and negotiate from their different social positions. The multiple case study of specialised music programmes provides insights into parent strategies and behaviours in intermediate practices between school-based socialisation and extracurricular activities largely run by the parents associations. The paper draws on data from in-depth focus group interviews with members of parents associations in socially, culturally, and historically different schools. Findings demonstrate that parent approaches to specialised education and their modes of involvement vary according to social class, resources, and school culture. There are class-based differences in parent strategies and the way their collective symbolic capital is used in policy negotiation. However, relationships between a parents association and the school administration are generally regulated by the social and cultural history of a particular school.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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