624
Views
19
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
ARTICLES

Fitting it all in: how mothers' employment shapes their school engagement

&
Pages 302-321 | Received 07 Jul 2014, Accepted 11 Dec 2014, Published online: 20 Apr 2015

References

  • Bello, M. (2010, May 5). Parents stepping in to help raise more money for schools. USA Today.
  • Barton, A. C., Drake, C., Perez, J. G., St. Louis, K., & George, M. (2004). Ecologies of parental engagement in urban education. Educational Researcher, 33(4), 3–12. doi:10.3102/0013189X033004003
  • Child Trends (2013, September). Parental involvement in schools: Indicators on children and youth [Data Bank]. Retrieved from http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/39_Parent_Involvement_In_Schools.pdf
  • Comer, J. P., & Haynes, N. M. (1991). Parent involvement in schools: An ecological approach. The Elementary School Journal, 91(3), 271–277. doi:10.1086/461654
  • Cucchiara, M. B. (2013). Marketing schools, marketing cities: Who wins and who loses when schools become urban amenities. Chicago: University of Chicago. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226016962.001.0001
  • DeFour, M. (2011, November 10). Statewide survey reveals impact of state budget cuts on school districts. Wisconsin State Journal. Available at: http://host.madison.com/news/local/education/local_schools/statewide-survey-reveals-impact-of-state-budget-cuts-on-school/article_dc68a9cc-0b42-11e1-8c6a-001cc4c03286.html
  • Edwards, J. R., & Rothbard, N. P. (2000). Mechanisms linking work and family: Clarifying the relationship between work and family constructs. Academy of Management Review, 25, 178–199.
  • Feiler, B. (2012, August 31). It's O.K. to skip that bake sale. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/fashion/finding-the-right-amount-of-parental-involvement-in-school.html?pagewanted=all
  • Golden, L. (2001). Flexible work schedules: Which workers get them? American Behavioral Scientist, 44, 1157–1178. doi:10.1177/00027640121956700
  • Gonzalez, R. (2012). Exploring parents' crossings into schools: Understanding a critical step in the development of home-school relationships (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park. Retrieved from http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/13144/1/Gonzalez_umd_0117E_13360.pdf
  • Greenhaus, J., Allen, T., & Spector, P. (2006). Health consequences of work–family conflict: The dark side of the work–family interface. In P. Perrewe and D. Ganster (Eds.), Employee health, coping and methodologies (Research in occupational stress and well-being) (Vol. 5, pp. 61–98). Bingley: Emerald Group.
  • Greenhaus, J., & Beutell, N. (1985). Sources of conflict between work and family roles. The Academy of Management Review, 10(1), 76–88.
  • Hacker, J. (2006). The great risk shift. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Hammersley, M., & Atkinson, P. (1995). Ethnography: Principles in practice. New York: Routledge.
  • Hassrick, E., & Schneider, B. (2009). Parent surveillance in schools: A question of social class. American Journal of Education, 115(2), 195–225. doi:10.1086/595665
  • Henly, J., Shaefer, H., & Waxman, E. (2006). Nonstandard work schedules: Employer- and Employee-driven flexibility in retail jobs. Social Service Review, 80, 609–634.
  • Heymann, S. J., & Earle, A. (2000). Low-income parents: How do working conditions affect their opportunity to help school-age children at risk? American Educational Research Journal, 37, 833–848. doi:10.3102/00028312037004833
  • Holloway, S., & Pimlott-Wilson, H. (2013). Parental involvement in children's learning: Mothers’ fourth shift, social class, and the growth of state intervention in family life. The Canadian Geographer, 57(2), 1–10.
  • Iversen, R., & Armstrong, A. (2006). Jobs aren’t enough: Toward a new economic mobility for low-income families. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
  • Jacobs, J., & Gerson, K. (2004). Understanding changes in American working time: A synthesis. In C. Epstein and A. Kalleberg (Eds.), Fighting for time: Shifting boundaries of work and social life (pp. 25–45). New York, NY: Russell Sage.
  • Kalleberg, A. L. (2009). Precarious work, insecure workers: Employment relations in transition. American Sociological Review, 74(1), 1–22. doi:10.1177/000312240907400101
  • Lambert, S., Haley-Lock, A., & Henly, J. (2012). Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs: Unanticipated consequences and promising directions. Community, Work & Family, 15(3), 293–331.
  • Landeros, M. (2011). Defining the ‘good mother’ and the ‘professional teacher’: Parent–teacher relationships in an affluent school district. Gender and Education, 23(3), 247–262. doi:10.1080/09540253.2010.491789.
  • Lareau, A. (2000a). Home advantage: Social class and parental intervention in elementary education. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Lareau, A. 2000b. My wife can tell me who I know: Methodological and conceptual problems in studying fathers. Qualitative Sociology, 23, 407–433. doi:10.1023/A:1005574724760
  • Lareau, A. (2003). Unequal childhoods: Class, race, and family life. Berkeley: University of California.
  • Lareau, A., & Horvat, E. M. (1999). Moments of social inclusion and exclusion race, class, and cultural capital in family-school relationships. Sociology of Education, 72(1), 37–53. doi:10.2307/2673185
  • Lareau, A., & Weininger, E. B. (2008). Time, work, and family life: Reconceptualizing gendered time patterns through the case of children's organized activities. Sociological Forum, 23, 419–454. doi:10.1111/j.1573-7861.2008.00085.x
  • Lawson, M. A. (2003). School-family relations in context: Parent and teacher perceptions of parent involvement. Urban Education, 38(1), 77–133. doi:10.1177/0042085902238687
  • Leachman, M., & Mai, C. (2013, September 12). Most states funding schools less than before the recession. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Retrieved from http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=4011
  • Lee, J.-S., & Bowen, N. K. (2006). Parent involvement, cultural capital, and the achievement gap among elementary school children. American Educational Research Journal, 43(2), 193–218. doi:10.3102/00028312043002193
  • MacLean, A., Harden, J., & Backett-Milburn, K. (2010). Financial trajectories: How parents and children discussed the impact of the recession. Twenty-First Century Society: Journal of the Academic of Social Sciences, 5(2), 159–170.
  • Mapp, K. (2012). Title I and parent involvement: Lessons from the past, recommendations for the future. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute.
  • Michigan Department of Education. (2004, December). Parent engagement information and tools: Moving beyond parent involvement to parent engagement. Lansing, MI: Author.
  • Muller, C. (1998). Gender differences in parental involvement and adolescents' mathematics achievement. Sociology of Education, 71(4), 336–356. doi:10.2307/2673174
  • National Family, School, and Community Engagement Working Group. (2009, June). Recommendations for federal policy. Retrieved from http://www.hfrp.org/family-involvement/projects/national-family-school-and-community-engagement-working-group
  • National PTA. (2009). PTA national standards for family-school partnerships: An implementation guide. Alexandria, VA: Author.
  • Noel, A., Stark, P., & Redford, J. (2013). Parent and family involvement in education, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2012. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
  • Presser, H. (2004). Employment in a 24/7 economy: Challenges for the family. In C. Epstein and A. Kalleberg (Eds.), Fighting for time: Shifting boundaries of work and social life (pp. 46–76). New York: Russell Sage.
  • Posey-Maddox, L. (2013). Professionalizing the PTO: Race, class, and shifting norms of parent engagement in a city public school. American Journal of Education, 119, 235–260.
  • Posey-Maddox, L. (2014). When middle-class parents choose urban schools: Class, race, and the challenge of equity in public education. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Ray, R., Sanes, M., & Schmitt, J. (2013, May). No-vacation nation revisited. Washington, DC: Center for Economic and Policy Research.
  • Reay, D. (2000). A useful extension of Bourdieu's conceptual framework? Emotional capital as a way of understanding mothers' involvement in their children's education. The Sociological Review, 48, 568–585. doi:10.1111/1467-954X.00233
  • Sinclair, R., Probst, T., Hammer, L., & Schaffer, M. (2013). Low income families and occupational health: Implications of economic stress for work-family conflict research and practice. In A-S G. Antoniou and C. L. Cooper (Eds.), The psychology of the recession on the workplace (pp. 308–323). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
  • Stacer, M. J., & Perrucci, R. (2013). Parental involvement with children at school, home, and community. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 34(3), 340–354. doi:10.1007/s10834-012-9335-y
  • Thompson, C. A., Beauvais, L. L., & Lyness, K. S. (1999). When work–family benefits are not enough: The influence of work–family culture on benefit utilization, organizational attachment, and work–family conflict. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 54, 392–415. doi:10.1006/jvbe.1998.1681
  • United States Department of Education. (2010). Supporting families and communities: Reauthorizing the elementary and secondary education act. Washington, DC: Author.
  • Voydanoff, P. (2001). Conceptualizing community in the context of work and family. Community, Work & Family, 4(2), 133–156.
  • Warner, C. H. (2010). Emotional safeguarding: Exploring the nature of middle-class parents' school involvement1 middle-class parents' school involvement. Sociological Forum, 25, 703–724. doi:10.1111/j.1573-7861.2010.01208.x
  • Watson, L., & Swanberg, J. (2011, May). Flexible workplace solutions for low-wage hourly workers: A framework for a national conversation. Washington, DC: Workplace Flexibility 2010.
  • Weiss, H. B., Mayer, E., Kreider, H., Vaughan, M., Dearing, E., Hencke, R., & Pinto, K. (2003). Making it work: Low-income working mothers' involvement in their children's education. American Educational Research Journal, 40, 879–901. doi:10.3102/00028312040004879
  • Williams, J., & Boushey, H. (2010, January). The three faces of work-family conflict: The poor, the professionals, and the missing middle. San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC: Center for WorkLife Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
  • Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. (2013). WINNS successful school guide. Retrieved from http://data.dpi.state.wi.us/data/GroupEnroll.aspx?OrgLevel=st&GraphFile=GROUPS&S4orALL=1&SRegion=1&SCounty=47&SAthleticConf=45&SCESA=05&Qquad=demographics.aspx&Group=EconDisadv
  • Young, M. B. (1999). Work-family backlash: Begging the question, what's fair? Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 562(1), 32–46. doi:10.1177/0002716299562001003

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.