The Parenting Early Intervention Programme in England, 2006-2011; A Classed Experience?

Autor/inn/en	Cullen, Stephen M.; Cullen, Mairi-Ann; Lindsay, Geoff; Strand, Steve
Titel	The Parenting Early Intervention Programme in England, 2006-2011; A Classed Experience?
Quelle	In: British Educational Research Journal, 39 (2013) 6, S.1025-1043 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-1926
DOI	10.1002/berj.3020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Early Intervention; Child Rearing; Educational Research; Questionnaires; Parents; Semi Structured Interviews; Evidence; Parent Attitudes; Positive Attitudes; Working Class; Statistical Analysis; Social Class; Parenting Skills; Mixed Methods Research; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Kindererziehung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Fragebogen; Eltern; Evidenz; Elternverhalten; Arbeiterklasse; Statistische Analyse; Social classes; Soziale Klasse
Abstract	Family policy was a key component of the "New" Labour government's family, social and education policy, and a wide range of family focused initiatives and interventions designed to "support" families and improve individual, family and social outcomes were introduced. The post-May 2010 coalition government's family policy exhibits key elements of policy continuity. There have been strong, class-based critiques of this approach to social policy, which have argued that policies were informed by a project to recreate the working class. A key English family policy initiative, the Parenting Early Intervention Programme (PEIP) ran from September 2006-March 2011. The national evaluation of the PEIP was a large scale combined methods study of the implementation of parenting programmes in all local authorities in England, and forms the evidential base of this article which was built upon the completion, by participating parents, of three standardised pre and post parenting course questionnaires (N = 4446). A sample of 133 participating parents was also interviewed using semi-structured interview schedules. The evidence from the PEIP evaluation showed the heterogeneous class nature of the PEIP cohorts, which over the roll-out of the initiative, incorporated a larger number of middle class parents. In addition, the qualitative data indicated that parents had strongly positive participant perceptions of PEIP courses, characterised by "mutual reach", and did not experience the courses in classed terms. The evidence from the quantitative and qualitative data collected for the national evaluation suggests that it is difficult to conceptualise the PEIP, as an example of the Labour government's family policy, in class terms--such an approach requires, at the least, major qualification. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10