A New Parent Generation: Meet Mr. and Mrs. Gen X

Autor/in	Howe, Neil
Titel	A New Parent Generation: Meet Mr. and Mrs. Gen X
Quelle	In: Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 75 (2010) 9, S.4-10 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-127X
Schlagwörter	Aging (Individuals); Baby Boomers; Grandparents; Elementary Secondary Education; Parent Student Relationship; Age Groups; Cohort Analysis; Educational Attitudes; Personality Traits; Cost Effectiveness; Consumer Education; Parent School Relationship; Interpersonal Communication; Marketing; Data; Competition; World Views + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aging; Altern; Großeltern; Age grop; Altersgruppe; Kohortenanalyse; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Konsumerziehung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Daten; Wettkampf; World view; Weltanschauung
Abstract	Slowly but surely, Generation Xers have been taking over from Baby Boomers as the majority of parents in elementary and secondary education. Gen-X parents and Boomer parents belong to two neighboring generations, each possessing its own location in history and its own peer personality. They are similar in some respects, but clearly different in others. Throughout the 1990s, educators grew accustomed to "helicopter parents," Boomer parents of Millennials who sometimes are helpful, sometimes annoying, yet always hovering over their children and making noise. Most Gen-X parents expect schools to be run like customer-oriented businesses. As with other purchases and investments, Gen Xers believe their children's education should be fair and open transaction with complete and accurate information and unconstrained consumer choice. This article offers strategies that will help schools adjust to this broad shift in generational attitudes and priorities. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10