God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success

Autor/in	Horwitz, Ilana M.
Titel	God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion's Surprising Impact on Academic Success
Quelle	(2022), (264 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-19-753414-4
Schlagwörter	Religion; Religious Factors; Grades (Scholastic); Academic Achievement; Child Rearing; Parent Child Relationship; Social Class; Student Attitudes; Academic Aspiration; High School Students; Higher Education; Churches; Self Concept; College Graduates; Gender Differences; Role of Religion; Equal Education; Outcomes of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Notenspiegel; Schulleistung; Kindererziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Schülerverhalten; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Church; Kirche; Selbstkonzept; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Geschlechterkonflikt; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	It's widely acknowledged that American parents from different class backgrounds take different approaches to raising their children. Upper and middle-class parents invest considerable time facilitating their children's activities, while working class and poor families take a more hands-off approach. These different strategies influence how children approach school. But missing from the discussion is the fact that millions of parents on both sides of the class divide are raising their children to listen to God. What impact does a religious upbringing have on their academic trajectories? Drawing on 10 years of survey data with over 3,000 teenagers and over 200 interviews, "God, Grades, and Graduation" offers a revealing and at times surprising account of how teenagers' religious upbringing influences their educational pathways from high school to college. Dr. Ilana M. Horwitz estimates that approximately one out of every four students in American schools are raised with religious restraint. These students orient their life around God so deeply that it alters how they see themselves and how they behave, inside and outside of church. This book takes us inside the lives of these teenagers to discover why they achieve higher grades than their peers, why they are more likely to graduate from college, and why boys from lower middle-class families particularly benefit from religious restraint. But readers also learn how for middle-upper class kids--and for girls especially--religious restraint recalibrates their academic ambitions after graduation, leading them to question the value of attending a selective college despite their stellar grades in high school. By illuminating the far-reaching effects of the childrearing logic of religious restraint, "God, Grades and Graduation" offers a compelling new narrative about the role of religion in academic outcomes and educational inequality. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01