Making It Work: Low-Income Working Mothers' Involvement in Their Children's Education

Autor/inn/en	Weiss, Heather B.; Mayer, Ellen; Kreider, Holly; Vaughan, Margaret; Dearing, Eric; Hencke, Rebecca; Pinto, Kristina
Titel	Making It Work: Low-Income Working Mothers' Involvement in Their Children's Education
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 40 (2003) 4, S.879-901 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/00028312040004879
Schlagwörter	Elementary Education; Mothers; Low Income; Parent Participation; Family Involvement; Family Work Relationship; Part Time Employment; Employed Parents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elementarunterricht; Mother; Mutter; Niedriglohn; Elternmitwirkung; Part-time employment; Teilzeitbeschäftigung
Abstract	This article explores the complex relation between employment and family involvement in children's elementary education for low-income women. Mixed-method analyses showed work as both an obstacle to and opportunity for involvement. Mothers who worked or attended school full time were less involved in their children's schooling than other mothers, and mothers who worked or attended school part time were more involved than other mothers. Yet subtle and positive associations between maternal work and educational involvement also emerged. Working mothers described several strategies for educational involvement. The findings reframe current ecological conceptions of family involvement and call for policy and research consideration of the dilemma of work and family involvement. (Contains 4 tables, 1 figure and 2 notes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10