Return to search

Volunteering Mothers on Elementary School Campus---A Facilitator or Impediment for Educational Equality?

Home-school relations are critical in determining how the educational process interacts with and is shaped by various social, cultural, political, and economic institutions. I focus my research on the educational involvement of mothers who volunteer at the elementary level in both the U.S. and Taiwan to seek a cross-cultural perspective on the structural inequalities embedded within home-school relations through the examination of mothers¡¦ roles on the one hand and the school¡¦s expectations on the other hand. By interviewing volunteering mothers and school administrators at one elementary school in each country, I discovered differences as well as similarities, reflected in the dominant mothering and educational discourses in the two countries. This qualitative cross-cultural study suggests a need to incorporate cultural and institutional variables currently outside of social and cultural capital-based frameworks in understanding the dynamics of home-school relations.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0208107-014018
Date08 February 2007
CreatorsCheng, Shiuh-Tarng
ContributorsWen-Hui Tang, Chiao-Ling Yang, Ming-charng Jeng
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0208107-014018
Rightsunrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive

Page generated in 0.0021 seconds