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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814482203321

Titolo

Preparing for post-secondary education : new roles for governments and families / / edited by Robert Sweet and Paul Anisef

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-86378-9

9786612863783

0-7735-7317-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SweetRobert Arthur <1943->

AnisefPaul

Disciplina

378.3/8/0971

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Canada - Finance

Postsecondary education - Canada - Finance

Education, Higher - Parent participation - Canada

College students - Canada - Finance, Personal

Education, Higher - Canada - Costs

Higher education and state - Canada

Education savings accounts - Canada

Enseignement superieur - Canada - Finances

Enseignement postsecondaire - Canada - Finances

Enseignement superieur - Participation des parents - Canada

Etudiants - Canada - Finances personnelles

Enseignement superieur - Canada - Cout

Enseignement superieur - Politique gouvernementale - Canada

Epargne-etudes - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Changing Partnerships: Families, Schools, and Governments; PART ONE: ACCESS TO PSE: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COSTS; PART TWO: FAMILIES AND PSE PLANNING; Index; 2 Access to Post-Secondary Education: An Analytical Framework and New Evidence on Background Effects; 3 Accessibility



and Student Debt: The Shift from Public to Private Support in Canada; 4 Paying for a University Education: A Comparison of Public and Private Study Costs in Canada, Australia, and Selected European Countries

5 Financing Lifelong Learning: The Potential and Actual Role of Individual Learning Accounts 6 A Revolution of Expectations? Three Key Trends in the SAEP Data; 7 Distributing Scarce Resources: Parental Investment in Their Children's Post-Secondary Education; 8 The Effects of Region and Gender on Educational Planning in Canadian Families; 9 Family Structure, Child Well-being, and Post-Secondary Saving: The Effect of Social Capital on the Child's Acquisition of Human Capital; 10 Parental Involvement in the Creation of Home-Learning Environments: Gender and Class Patterns

11 Exploring Limits to Parents' Involvement in Homework12 Educational Planning in Families: Issues and Future Research Directions; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; P; R; S; T; U

Sommario/riassunto

Most Canadian parents have had to assume a larger share of the financial costs of their children's post-secondary education because of declining government funding and changing loans and bursary programs. Preparing for Post-Secondary Education considers the impact of increased private support and the planning strategies parents use based on information from a 1999 Statistics Canada national survey of 34,000 households. The contributors begin by examining changes to national and international educational funding policies and the relationship between public and private costs. They focus on the role of families in marshaling the necessary resources, demonstrating that access to post-secondary education is also determined by social capital. The authors conclude that new partnerships between parents, the state, and schools are redefining the various players' roles and commitments to the educational futures of Canadian children. Contributors include the late Stephen Bell (York University), Scott Davies (McMaster University), Ross Finnie (Queen's University), George Frempong (York University), Dianne Looker (Acadia University), Nancy Mandell (York University), Sheila Marshall (University of British Columbia), Hans Schuetze (University of British Columbia), Victor Thiessen (Dalhousie University), Jim White (University of British Columbia), and Jamie Wood (University of British Columbia).