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

• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.3/8/0971
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: SweetRobert Arthur <1943-> AnisefPaul
• 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).
• Titolo autorizzato: Preparing for post-secondary education
• ISBN: 1-282-86378-9; 9786612863783; 0-7735-7317-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814482203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II