Parental Entrepreneurship in Public Education: A Social Force or a Policy Problem?

Autor/inn/en	Gofen, Anat; Blomqvist, Paula
Titel	Parental Entrepreneurship in Public Education: A Social Force or a Policy Problem?
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 29 (2014) 4, S.546-569 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2013.858275
Schlagwörter	Entrepreneurship; Parent Participation; Educational Administration; Educational Policy; Home Schooling; Inclusion; Special Needs Students; Parent Attitudes; Cooperatives; Child Care; Early Childhood Education; Parent Role; Public Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unternehmungsgeist; Elternmitwirkung; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Homeschooling; Home instruction; ; Hausunterricht; Heimschule; Inklusion; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Elternverhalten; Genossenschaftswesen; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Parental role; Elternrolle; Öffentliche Erziehung
Abstract	Parental involvement in public education is an expression of joint responsibility between parents and the state in which parents are expected to "comply" with current educational policy. Moreover, parents are often perceived as "reactive," whereas the educational administration is seen as proactive, mainly by reducing barriers and establishing mechanisms for parental involvement. Referring to proactive involvement in which parents practice noncompliance while fighting the system, this study conceptualizes "parental entrepreneurship." The practical aspects of parental entrepreneurship are analyzed based on three well-known manifestations: homeschooling, the integration of children with special needs, and parental cooperatives within early childhood education and care. Parental entrepreneurship further exemplifies the blurry boundaries between parents and administration as regards children's education and demonstrates that the entrepreneurial role parents may play in reforming formal public education. Parental entrepreneurship also illuminates the ongoing renegotiation of the foundations of the social contract between parents and the government, primarily in relation to professionalism, legitimacy, and authority. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10