A Labour of Love: Mothers, Emotional Capital and Homework

Autor/in	Hutchison, Kirsten
Titel	A Labour of Love: Mothers, Emotional Capital and Homework
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 24 (2012) 2, S.195-212 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2011.602329
Schlagwörter	Homework; Social Class; Mothers; Parent Participation; Parent School Relationship; Feminism; Parent Child Relationship; Academic Achievement; Stress Variables; Sociocultural Patterns; Video Technology; Cultural Capital; Working Class; Middle Class + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hausaufgabe; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Mother; Mutter; Elternmitwirkung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Feminismus; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Schulleistung; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Arbeiterklasse; Mittelschicht
Abstract	This paper develops a new analysis of homework by building on feminist scholarship which documents the invisible labour done by women in support of their children's education. While numerous studies have examined the relationship between homework and achievement, little attention has been paid to the largely gendered and potentially stressful nature of "parental involvement". The analytic focus in this paper is on the complex emotional and pedagogical dimensions of homework and the ways it is shaped by socio-cultural contexts. Videotaped homework interactions between one working-class and two middle-class mothers and their children are examined using Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and capital. The analysis distinguishes between productive pedagogical relationships and those that promote extensive anxiety and are counterproductive to learning. The paper argues that the reserves of cultural and emotional capital required for homework completion are significant and that class position does not necessarily guarantee the ways in which these capitals are mobilised. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10