"Keeping Close and Spoiling" Revisited: Exploring the Significance of "Home" for Family Relationships and Educational Trajectories in a Marginalised Estate in Urban South Wales

Autor/in	Mannay, Dawn
Titel	"Keeping Close and Spoiling" Revisited: Exploring the Significance of "Home" for Family Relationships and Educational Trajectories in a Marginalised Estate in Urban South Wales
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 25 (2013) 1, S.91-107 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2012.736954
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Family School Relationship; Case Studies; Parent Child Relationship; Mothers; Daughters; Disadvantaged; Self Concept; Social Mobility; Social Class; Working Class; College Attendance; First Generation College Students; Relocation; Educational Attainment; Interviews; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mother; Mutter; Daughter; Tochter; Selbstkonzept; Soziale Mobilität; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Arbeiterklasse; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Umsetzung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	This paper revisits Diana Leonard's seminal paper "Keeping close and spoiling in a south Wales town", by drawing on one mother and daughter case study. Leonard focused on geographical closeness and the strategies employed by parents to keep their children living at home, rather than sending them to university. In contrast, this paper explores the contradictory nature of remaining geographically close, living within the family home and commuting to a local university. This paper argues that "keeping close" by remaining at home whilst studying cannot negate the psychological separation: rather the maternal relationship can be threatened by an "ambiguous loss", the loss of a loved one who is physically present but psychologically absent. In this paper, I focus on the psychological strategies employed to engender closeness and maintain continuity, under the impossibly constant threat and everyday reality of change. (Contains 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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