Cultural Capital and Family Involvement in Children's Education: Tales from Two Primary Schools in Cyprus

Autor/in	Symeou, Loizos
Titel	Cultural Capital and Family Involvement in Children's Education: Tales from Two Primary Schools in Cyprus
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 28 (2007) 4, S.473-487 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425690701369525
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Elementary Schools; Family Involvement; Parent Participation; Case Studies; Ethnography; Urban Areas; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Family School Relationship; Cyprus + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Elternmitwirkung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ethnografie; Urban area; Stadtregion; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Zypern
Abstract	This paper presents the findings of a study which explored teacher-family collaboration in state primary schools in Cyprus. The research strategy was one of multiple case study, with a sample of seven teachers, their pupils and the pupils' parents. The research approach was ethnographic and the data set reported in this paper includes the data collected from the field of two of the sites. The analysis of the data showed that participant parents, regardless of their background, valued their children's educational success, wanted their children to do well in school, and correspondingly saw themselves as supporting their children in one way or another. The evidence, however, demonstrated a variation in familial perspectives and needs and a considerable distinction in how families of different background used their school contacts. These conclusions draw on Bourdieu's views of cultural capital and seem quite consistent with the findings of other researchers elsewhere. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10