29 May 2015

Parents, Disadvantage, and Educational Access

In our recent special issue entitled " Access to and Accessibility of Education Throughout the Educational Trajectories of Youth in Europe," Nicola De Luigi and Alessandro Martelli of the University of Bologna look at the role of parents in educational access. Here is the abstract of their paper, "Attitudes and Practices of Parents: Disadvantage and Access to Education" (DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001259):
This article focuses on different ways in which socially disadvantaged parents engage with their children’s educational experiences, and provides evidence of the role they play in opening or narrowing their children’s access to education. Disadvantaged parents are usually associated with weak or difficult educational trajectories for their children, because of their lower level of economic, cultural, and social capital. Nevertheless, this association does not operate as an automatic mechanism. Indeed, against a backdrop of persisting inequalities, research data show a plurality of intraclass and intragroup dynamics, with disadvantaged parents having diverse ways of avoiding blaming processes, saving dignity, and acting as proactive agents for their children’s educational career.
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01 May 2015

Table of Contents Volume 47 Number 1 (Spring 2015)

Access to and Accessibility of Education Throughout the Educational Trajectories of Youth in Europe 

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
Access to and Accessibility of Education Throughout the Educational Trajectories of Youth in Europe
Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Barbara Stauber & Eduardo Barberis
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001251

Access to and Accessibility of Education: An Analytic and Conceptual Approach to a Multidimensional Issue
Barbara Stauber & Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001254

Institutional Frameworks and Structural Factors Relating to Educational Access Across Europe
Andy Biggart, Tero Järvinen & Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001256

Attitudes and Practices of Parents: Disadvantage and Access to Education
Nicola De Luigi & Alessandro Martelli
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001259

Creating Accessibility to Education: The Role of School Staff's Discretionary Practices
Eduardo Barberis & Izabela Buchowicz
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2014.1001264

Access to Higher Education at the End of Lower Secondary for “Disadvantaged” Students: The Interplay of Structural, Institutional Frameworks and Student Agency
Isabelle Danic
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001267

BOOK REVIEW
Transnational Policy Flows in European Education: The Making and Governing of Knowledge in the Education Policy Field Andreas Nordin & Daniel Sundberg, eds., Oxford: Symposium Books, 2014.
Rolf Straubhaar
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1005430

Comparative Education Society of Europe (CESE) News
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1001293