Family, School and the Mass Production of Parenting Advice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8406276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Proctor (0000-0003-3293-6789, The University of Sydney, corresponding author), Heather Weaver (0009-0001-9948-4855, The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-60 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071005.2019.1584265 |
| OpenAlex | W2929252011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
The underlying thesis of much popular parenting discourse in circulation in western Anglophone countries is that parenting labour has intensified historically, notably in regard to schooling, and that we are witnessing new kinds of parental attitudes and strategies. A related argument holds that parents, especially middle-class parents, have become entrepreneurial agents in their children’s education, and that this activity is a consequence of global neoliberal policy reform. This paper examines the intensification thesis through a study of popular parenting advice in the late pre-neoliberal era, the 1960s and 1970s. It proposes that the rise of intensive school parenting must be understood not only through policy histories of competition, choice and marketisation but also through histories of domestic life, of the material and affective activities of ‘home-making’. The focus is on a collection of parenting advice (including advertisements) published in one mass-market women’s magazine, the Australian Women’s Weekly. Such publications were, the paper argues, significant and exemplary in disseminating forms of advice that encouraged parents, especially mothers, to discover and develop new repertoires of educational child-rearing competencies and to consider themselves as competitors in the educational arena, on behalf of their own children
Advice (programming) · Developmental psychology · Economics · Pedagogy · Production (economics) · Sociology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Computer Science · Early Childhood Education and Development · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology
The Disenchantment of the Home
Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities
White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling
Women’s Worlds
Unequal Childhoods
Dividing Classes
Class Practices
A History of Australian Schooling
The 'Australian Woman' and her Migrant Others in the Postwar Australian Women's Weekly
The children have only got one education and you have to make sure it's a good one’
The good, the bad and the ‘good enough’ mother on the UK parenting forum Mumsnet
The ‘Third Wave’
Creating an educational home
The Question of the Spotted Muumuu
Love and Freedom
Who was that woman? the australian women's weekly in the post-war years
Asian migration and education cultures in the Anglo-sphere
The House of Packer
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |