1st Edition

Mothering for Schooling

By Alison Griffith, Dorothy Smith Copyright 2005
    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes the effects mothers' work has on educational systems as a whole and the ways in which inequalities of educational opportunities are reproduced.

    Series Editor's Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Women and the Making of the New Middle Class 3. The Mothering Discourse 4. Time, Scheduling, and Coordinating the Uncoordinated 5. Complementary Educational Work 6. Complementary Educational Work: Employed Mothers and Fathers 7. Uptown and Downtown in Maltby School and Board Perspectives 8. Inequality and Educational Change

    Biography

    Alison Griffith is associate professor, Faculty of Education, York University.
    Dorothy Smith is professor emerita, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE, University of Toronto.