The Politicization of Parenthood: Shifting private and public responsibilities in education and child rearing

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by  Sabine Andresen, Martina Richter (auth.), Martina Richter, Sabine Andresen (eds.)

The Politicization of Parenthood
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The Politicization
of Parenthood
Shifting Private and Public Responsibilities
in Education and Child Rearing
Editors
Martina Richter Sabine Andresen
Institute of Social Work, Education Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
and Sport Science (ISBS) IDeA - Center for Research on Individual
University of Vechta Development and Adaptive Education
Driverstrasse 22 of Children at Risk
49377 Vechta Robert-Mayer-Strasse 1
Germany 60054 Frankfurt/Main
Germany
ISSN 1879-5196 e-ISSN 1879-520X
ISBN 978-94-007-2971-1 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2972-8
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2972-8
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Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1
Sabine Andresen and Martina Richter
Part I Families and the Welfare State:
The Understanding of Responsibility
Family Policy and the Politics of Parenting: From Function
to Competence ................................................................................................. 13
Val Gillies
Families, Professionals, and Responsibility .................................................. 27
Nadia Kutscher
Nordic Politicization of Parenthood: Unfolding Hybridization? ................ 39
Anne Lise Ellingsæter
Can a Crisis Become an Opportunity? Gender and Care
in Contemporary Ireland ............................................................................... 55
Brid Featherstone
Parent–School Relations in England and the USA:
Partnership, Problematized ........................................................................... 69
Kristen D. Nawrotzki
Family and Welfare State Change: Challenges for Education ................... 85
Andreas Lange
The Redistribution of Responsibility Between State and Parents:
Family in the Context of Post-Welfare-State Transformation .................... 101
Nina Oelkers
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Part II Child Rearing Between Family Care
and Institutional Provisions
Early Childhood Education and Social Inequality:
Parental Models of a “Good” Childhood ...................................................... 113
Tanja Betz
Child Well-Being in the UK: Children’s Views of Families ........................ 127
Colette McAuley
The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes ............................ 139
Carol Vincent, Nicola Rollock, Stephen Ball, and David Gillborn
Signifi cance of Family and School, Educational Standards,
and Social Reproduction in Education ......................................................... 153
Jutta Ecarius
Studying at Home: With Whom and in Which Way?
Homework Practices and Confl icts in the Family ........................................ 165
Elke Wild and Sittipan Yotyodying
“Having to Keep Silent”: A Capabilities Perspective on Growing
Up and the “Education Process” in a Migration Family ............................. 181
Christine Hunner-Kreisel
Part III Meeting Parents’ and Children’s Needs:
Professionals in Schools
Pushing Parents Away: The Role of District Bureaucracy
in an Urban School.......................................................................................... 197
Erin McNamara Horvat
Symbolic Constructions, Pedagogical Practices, and the Legitimation
of All-Day Schooling from a Professional Perspective: Tendencies
Towards Familialization in All-Day Schools ................................................. 213
Till-Sebastian Idel, Kerstin Rabenstein, and Sabine Reh
Parents’ Perspectives on Services to Support Families
in All-Day Schools ........................................................................................... 221
Nicole Börner
Parental Involvement in All-Day Special Schools
for Learning Disabilities ................................................................................. 235
Michael Urban, Kapriel Meser, and Rolf Werning
Educational or Child-Rearing Partnerships: What Kind
of Cooperation Is Needed at All-Day Secondary Schools? .......................... 249
Regina Soremski
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School Attachment and Performance: The Impact of Participation
in Extracurricular Activities at School ......................................................... 265
Natalie Fischer and Felix Brümmer
Daily School Time, Workforce Participation, and Family Life:
Time Spent in School as a Condition of Family Life ................................... 281
Ivo Züchner
Ideas of Family and Concepts of Responsibility
at All-Day Schools ........................................................................................... 299
Sabine Andresen, Lena Blomenkamp, Nicole Koch, Martina Richter,
Anne-Dorothee Wolf, and Kathrin Wrobel

Contributors
Sabine Andresen , Research Interests: Family Research; Childhood and Youth
Studies; Theory and History of Education; Progressive Education; Gender Studies
IDeA - Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of
Children at Risk, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main , Robert-Mayer-Strasse 1,
60054 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Stephen Ball , Research Interests: Education Policy Analysis; Relationships
Between Education and Education Policy and Social Class Institute of Education ,
University of London , UK
Tanja Betz , Research Interests: Childhood Studies; Educational Research;
Professionalization of Educators; Social Inequality Faculty of Educational Science ,
Schumpeter-Fellow, Faculty of Educational Science , Goethe University Frankfurt/
Main , Germany
Lena Blomenkamp, Research Interests: All-Day-School; Childhood Education;
Social Inequality Department of Social Work , Catholic University of Applied
Science North Rhine-Westphalia , Cologne , Germany
Nicole Börner, Research Interests: All-Day School; Family Research Alliance
German Youth Institute/ Dortmund Technical University , Germany
Felix Brümmer, Research Interests: Individual Effects of Extracurricular Activities;
Coping With the Transition to Secondary School; Familial Conditions for Learning
and Motivation German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) ,
Frankfurt/Main , Germany
Jutta Ecarius , Research Interests: Childhood and Youth Studies, Family Research;
Generation and Family Research; Qualitative Methods Faculty of Human Sciences ,
University of Cologne , Germany
Anne Lise Ellingsæter , Research Interests: Changes in the Relationship of Welfare
State; Families and Labor Markets; Family Policy; Family Policy and Ideational
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