Education and the Family: Passing Success Across the Generations

by Feinstein; Leon

• ISBN13: 9780415396370
• ISBN10: 0415396379
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-08-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Foundations and Futures of Education series focuses on key emerging issues in education as well as continuing debates within the field. The series is interdisciplinary, and includes historical, philosophical, sociological, psychological and comparative perspectives on three major themes: the purposes and nature of education; increasing interdisciplinarity within the subject; and the theory-practice divide.

Author Biography

Leon Feinstein is Professor of Education and Social Policy and Director Kathryn Duckworth is Research Officer and Ricardo Sabates is Senior Research Officer, all at the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. viii
Series editors' foreword	p. x
Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
List of abbreviations	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Background	p. 2
The context	p. 2
An overview	p. 4
Understanding and conceptualising the importance of education	p. 9
Understanding the importance of parents' education	p. 11
Defining education	p. 12
Measuring education	p. 13
Parental education and the attainment gap	p. 15
Correlation does not imply causation!	p. 17
But is the effect of education causal?	p. 19
Summary	p. 22
Conceptualising the influence of parents' education: a framework for analysis	p. 23
The ecological model of human development	p. 23
A conceptual model of the intergenerational transmission of educational success	p. 25
Interdisciplinary perspectives, complementarities and alternative approaches	p. 30
The wider context	p. 36
Summary	p. 41
The influence of parents' education: a review of the evidence	p. 43
The importance of what goes on in the family	p. 45
Introduction	p. 45
Parenting style	p. 51
Educational behaviours	p. 61
Summary	p. 71
Internal features of the family environment	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Parental cognitions	p. 76
Parental mental health and well-being	p. 90
Summary	p. 94
Distal family factors	p. 96
Introduction	p. 96
Family structure	p. 98
Family size	p. 102
Teenage motherhood	p. 104
Income and poverty	p. 107
Maternal employment	p. 110
Summary	p. 113
The importance of other developmental contexts	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Pre-schools	p. 122
Schools	p. 125
Neighbourhoods	p. 129
Summary	p. 132
Policy and the wider responsibilities of education: early preventive action	p. 135
A framework for supporting resilience in childhood	p. 137
Preventive action to enhance equality of opportunity and of outcomes	p. 137
Methods and research resources	p. 138
The prediction data and outcomes	p. 145
Results	p. 152
Summary	p. 166
Implications of the ecological model of home-school interaction for policy development	p. 168
Summary: the key channels for education effects	p. 169
Future research	p. 171
Themes for policy	p. 172
Concluding discussion and three key themes	p. 182
Notes	p. 185
References	p. 187
Index	p. 215
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