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Formal education on offer in disadvantaged communities

Formal education on offer in disadvantaged communities
Formal education on offer in disadvantaged communities
This study analysed the ways in which financially disadvantaged families in rural Mexico got involved in their children’s education. This included schooling experiences and informal learning outside school of girls and boys aged 3 to 16 years. In doing so, the study examined whether the community’s social and institutional organisations helped or hindered parents’ forms of participation in their own and their children’s formal and informal education. The purpose was to analyse the aspirations families had and the obstacles they faced in terms of education. Parents’ transmission of knowledge, values and practices to their children were also explored. Likewise, the study analysed the way in which parents’ backgrounds influenced their strategies of involvement and investigated whether a lack of adequate financial resources inhibited the children’s educational participation and choices. Testimonies of teachers and local authority officials were taken into account in order to analyse the relationship of families with the community school.
Azaola, Marta Cristina
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Azaola, Marta Cristina
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Azaola, Marta Cristina (2009) Formal education on offer in disadvantaged communities. X Congreso Nacional de Investigacion Educativa del COMIE, Veracruz, Mexico.

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Abstract

This study analysed the ways in which financially disadvantaged families in rural Mexico got involved in their children’s education. This included schooling experiences and informal learning outside school of girls and boys aged 3 to 16 years. In doing so, the study examined whether the community’s social and institutional organisations helped or hindered parents’ forms of participation in their own and their children’s formal and informal education. The purpose was to analyse the aspirations families had and the obstacles they faced in terms of education. Parents’ transmission of knowledge, values and practices to their children were also explored. Likewise, the study analysed the way in which parents’ backgrounds influenced their strategies of involvement and investigated whether a lack of adequate financial resources inhibited the children’s educational participation and choices. Testimonies of teachers and local authority officials were taken into account in order to analyse the relationship of families with the community school.

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Published date: 21 September 2009
Venue - Dates: X Congreso Nacional de Investigacion Educativa del COMIE, Veracruz, Mexico, 2009-09-20

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Local EPrints ID: 193159
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/193159
PURE UUID: 015d9aea-a6db-420c-a256-c2cc0a964582
ORCID for Marta Cristina Azaola: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6671-4095

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Date deposited: 12 Jul 2011 10:53
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 04:27

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