"Good" parenting : parental support in education as a factor in inequality

Ule, Mirjana (author), Živoder, Andreja (author)

Parental support is generally considered as important, positive, and desirable for students' educational trajectories. As research in education has repeatedly proven, parental capital significantly affects students' educational pathways in terms of ambitions, opportunities, and outcomes. In this article, we investigate how teachers and parents in Slovenia view the role of parents in students' educational trajectories. We observe whether their role might mitigate or increase educational inequalities. We draw on qualitative data obtained through interviews with teachers and parents of ninth-grade students in Slovenia. The article shows that parents in Slovenia are very involved in their children's educational process; they have high educational aspirations that seem to be internalized by their children. Their engaged involvement can be newly considered as a factor in the social differentiation of children, as it covertly sanctions those parents and children who are unable or unwilling to create a supportive family climate.

• Language: English
• Keywords: parental involvement, educational trajectories, educational aspirations, supportive parenting, educational inequality, social differentiation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 11-28
• Numbering: Roč. 28, č. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-148435
• UDC: 378:316.362.1-055.52-055.62
• ISSN on article: 1803-7437
• DOI: 10.5817/SP2023-2-1
• COBISS.SI-ID: 161954819
• Publication date in RUL: 23.08.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Studia paedagogica
• Shortened title: Stud. paedagog.
• Publisher: Masarykova univerzita
• ISSN: 1803-7437
• COBISS.SI-ID: 4076503

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