abstract: 'Nation states across the global North are restructuring their education

  systems. This process has changed the relationship between school and

  home, with an increasing onus being placed on parents to involve

  themselves in their children''s education. The article explores what

  mothers with different social class positions think about state attempts

  to enrol them in the education of their primary-aged children (ages

  4-11), and considers their experience of school curriculum events

  designed to encourage and guide their help for children''s learning

  within the home. Mothers'' support for this form of educational

  restructuring is widespread, but motivations for, and experiences of,

  involvement vary significantly between higher-, middle- and low-income

  schools. This matters as parental involvement not only increases

  mothers'' workloadsadding a fourth shift to the existing demands of paid

  labour, domestic work, and their own education/trainingbut also risks

  widening social inequality as middle-class children potentially benefit

  more than their working class counterparts. In conclusion, the article

  emphasizes the need for geographies of education to: explore parents''

  gendered and classed engagement with education; trace the sectors''

  changing spatiality in the context of growing links between different

  sites of learning; and produce geographies that look both inward into

  the education system and outward at its importance in wider society.'
affiliation: 'Holloway, SL (Corresponding Author), Loughborough Univ Technol, Dept
  Geog, Loughborough LE11 3TU, Leics, England.

  Holloway, Sarah L.; Pimlott-Wilson, Helena, Loughborough Univ Technol, Dept Geog,
  Loughborough LE11 3TU, Leics, England.'
author: Holloway, Sarah L. and Pimlott-Wilson, Helena
author-email: s.l.holloway@lboro.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Holloway
  given: Sarah L.
- family: Pimlott-Wilson
  given: Helena
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/cag.12014
eissn: 1541-0064
files: []
issn: 0008-3658
journal: CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIES-GEOGRAPHIES CANADIENNES
keywords: 'education; schools; parental engagement; good mothering; literacy;

  numeracy'
keywords-plus: EDUCATION; POLICY; ASPIRATION; SCHOOLS; WORK
language: English
month: SEP
number: 3, SI
number-of-cited-references: '43'
orcid-numbers: 'Pimlott-Wilson, Helena/0000-0002-1329-7718

  Holloway, Sarah/0000-0002-7662-6638'
pages: 327-336
papis_id: 664b37f0b764d07f31fc2ab1b254f7d8
ref: Holloway2013parentalinvolvement
times-cited: '15'
title: 'Parental involvement in children''s learning: Mothers'' fourth shift, social
  class, and the growth of state intervention in family life'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000329198200010
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '38'
volume: '57'
web-of-science-categories: Geography
year: '2013'