Mothering for Schooling

by Alison Griffith, Dorothy Smith

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135929756
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/08/2005
Series:	Critical Social Thought
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	230 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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