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SUMMARY:Working-Class Parents in the Era of Pedagogy of Autonomy and Famil
 y-School Partnership: A Perspective from Italy - Dr Paola Ravaioli\, Postd
 octoral Research Fellow at the Department of Communication Studies\, Unive
 rsity of Bologna
DTSTART:20101209T123000Z
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:The notion of parental involvement in schooling has been one t
 he key topics in the educational research and policy reforms of the last t
 hirty years. Since the beginning it has been at the centre of a highly con
 sensual and optimistic debate. The shared premise was the idea the policy 
 of family-school partnership was a most effective means for reducing cultu
 ral distances between the families and the school and improving the qualit
 y of children’s schooling as well as the equality of educational opportu
 nities. But too often “in championing the virtues of parent involvement 
 in schooling\, and promoting techniques for increasing it\, researchers ha
 ve neglected the more basic question of why social class so affects parent
 al involvement” (Lareau 2000). \nThe aim of this talk is to critically d
 iscuss how the policy of parental involvement has affected the relationshi
 p of working-class parents with the primary school. The base for the discu
 ssion will be provided by a qualitative research on the school experience 
 of Italian urban working-class families.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ (Donald
  McIntyre Building\, room GS4)
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