Chapters cover topics such as: family economic and cultural resources and school performance and attainment of students, family multilingualism and academic success, family stressors and education, valuation of higher education versus employment and family contestations of public schooling and its policies and curriculum, among others.
Around the world, education is regarded as an institution which can substantially aid individuals, providing them with the knowledge and skills they will need to obtain jobs, achieve financial success, and lead better lives. Across virtually all family relationships, there is an inseparable connection between education and the family. This volume of Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research is a broad examination of this correlation.
The first of two connected volumes, Education and the Family: Achievement, Attainment, and Quality School Outcomes features diverse theoretical and methodological chapters which explore the interactions between two crucial institutions: the family and education system. With enormous implications for determining life outcomes, this rich edited collection on the role the familial impact on educational output and achievement. Chapters cover a wide array of topics, such as: family economic and cultural resources and school performance and attainment of students, family multilingualism and academic success, family stressors and education, valuation of higher education versus employment and family contestations of public schooling and its policies and curriculum among others.
Education and the Family: Achievement, Attainment, and Quality School Outcomes is appealing reading for scholars of family sociology, the sociology of education, and childhood and youth alike.
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1. Parents as School Supplies: What Types of Parental Support
Predict Graduation from Two- and Four-Year Colleges?; Tanya Rouleau Whitworth
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2. Family and Parental Involvement in Mathematics Learning: Rural
South African Learners Voices; Hlamulo Wiseman Mbhiza
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3. Students and Parents Emotional Capital, and Academic Achievement
in Elementary School; Katerina Bodovski, Yeonwoo Lee, and Eric Hengyu Hu
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4. A Factitious Inheritance: The Main Family Factors influencing
Young People's Mental Health and Academic Performance; Ana Filipa Gonēalves
Gago Pacheco
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5. The Influence of Family on Mathematics Achievement in China,
Taiwan and the United States; Timothy J. Madigan
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6. In Search of Good Education: Exploring Parental School Choices,
Perceptions and Evaluations in a Low-Income Neighbourhood of Delhi; Sriti
Ganguly
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7. Beyond Bloodlines: Exploring Changing Patrilineal Family
Dynamics, Gender Roles and Gender Disparities in Education in Rural Ghana;
Francis Xavier Naab and Wolfram Laube
Timothy J. Madigan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, USA. He specializes in quantitative research on education and family and has fielded a series of state-wide social policy surveys. He has taught, researched and traveled extensively across China and Taiwan.
Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. His research interests include parent-child relationships, mate selection, marriage, and fertility.
