African American Parents' Educational Orientations: The Importance of Social Class and Parents' Perceptions of Schools

Autor/inn/en	Diamond, John B.; Gomez, Kimberley
Titel	African American Parents' Educational Orientations: The Importance of Social Class and Parents' Perceptions of Schools
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 36 (2004) 4, S.383-427 (45 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
Schlagwörter	Racial Factors; Social Class; Parent Participation; Parent School Relationship; Educational Experience; African Americans; Working Class; Middle Class; Parent Attitudes; Educational Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Elternmitwirkung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Bildungserfahrung; Afroamerikaner; Arbeiterklasse; Mittelschicht; Elternverhalten; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt
Abstract	Research on race, social class, and parent involvement in education often implies that parents' educational orientations result directly from their social class or racial group backgrounds. In this article, the authors study the involvement of working-class and middle-class African American parents. They argue that these parents' educational orientations are informed by the educational environments they navigate, their resources for negotiating these environments, and their prior social class and race-based educational experiences. Middle-class African American parents studied were more likely to select their children's schools, assess them favorably, and adopt supportive orientations toward them. In contrast, working-class African American parents studied were assigned to schools, tended to assess them less favorably, and adopted more reform-based orientations toward them. The article extends prior work by studying social class and parent involvement within the African American community and by highlighting the interaction between parents' perceptions of school context and their educational orientations. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10