Involved Fatherhood? Exploring the Educational Work of Middle-Class Men

Autor/in	Gottzen, Lucas
Titel	Involved Fatherhood? Exploring the Educational Work of Middle-Class Men
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 23 (2011) 5, S.619-634 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2010.527829
Schlagwörter	Middle Class; Parent Participation; Ethnography; Parent School Relationship; Educational Responsibility; Fathers; Males; Case Studies; Data Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Labor; Caregivers; Elementary Secondary Education; Personal Narratives; California; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Elternmitwirkung; Ethnografie; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Erziehungsverantwortung; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Auswertung; Diskursanalyse; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Erlebniserzählung; Kalifornien; USA
Abstract	The present paper explores middle-class fathers' educational work by studying how they and their partners are involved in their children's education at home, in school, and how they investigate school options and make decisions about educational issues. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of 30 dual-earner couples in the Greater Los Angeles area, this article analyses how fathers position themselves in relation to discourses on parental involvement in education. In order to demonstrate the variety of ways fathers are involved three case studies are presented. It is illustrated how the men, by drawing on a discourse on involved fatherhood, position themselves in line with an ideal of parental involvement in education. Fathers who are doing less educational work than their spouses offer accounts for not taking a greater educational responsibility by drawing on a breadwinner discourse or by depicting mothers as gatekeepers of father involvement. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10