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Gender and Education Volume 29, 2017 - Issue 5: Deconstructing the 'Parent' in Parent-School Relationships: Addressing multiple identities and changing practice
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‘The children have only got one education and you have to make sure it's a good one’: parenting and parent–school relations in a neoliberal age

Carol VincentUCL Institute of Education, London, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 541-557 | Received 16 May 2016, Accepted 06 Dec 2016, Published online: 12 Jan 2017

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