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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.

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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

Mothering for Schooling

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    A Paperback by Alison Griffith, Dorothy Smith

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 12/4/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780415950541, 978-0415950541
      ISBN10: 0415950546
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      History of education Moral and social purpose of education

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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

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