Family environments, school resources, and educational outcomes / / edited by Grace Kao, Hyunjoon Park

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.072
• Soggetto topico: Sociology - Research
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): KaoGrace; ParkHyunjoon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Family Environments, School Resources, and Educational Outcomes; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Advisory Board; Introduction: Family Environments, School Resources, and Educational Outcomes; References; Chapter 1 How Schools Matter: The Need for a Contextual Perspective; The Need for a Contextual Perspective: Three Questions about Schools; What Is the Distribution of School Quality?; How Do Social Conditions Outside of School Shape the Magnitude and Malleability of the Achievement Gaps Schools Receive? ; Which Policies, School or Non-School, Would Most Effectively Reduce Achievement Gaps?Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Preschool Enrollment, Classroom Instruction, Elementary School Context, and the Reading Achievement of Children f...; The Early Education of Children from Low-Income Families; Kindergarten Instruction, Preschool Enrollment, and Elementary School Composition; Method; Sample; Measures; Reading Development; Classroom Phonics Instruction; Preschool Attendance; School Poverty Level; Child/Family Characteristics; School/Teacher Characteristics; Plan of Analysis; Results ; The Role of Preschools, Classrooms, and Schools in Reading AchievementSensitivity Analyses; Discussion; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix; Chapter 3 The Consequences of Principal and Teacher Turnover for School Social Resources; Turnover and School Social Resources; Principal Leadership and Teacher Community; Staff Turnover Potentially Destabilizes Principal Leadership and Teacher Community; Effects of Turnover on Principal Leadership and Teacher Community Should Be Role-Specific; Data and Method; Data; Sample; Measures; Principal Leadership and Teacher Community; Staff Turnover ; Control VariablesAnalytic Models and Strategies to Address Confounding; Results; Unconditional Associations; Multivariate Models; Robustness Checks and Potential Confounding; Discussion; Limitations; Broader Implications; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix A: School Social Resources Measures; Item Wording; Principal Leadership; Teacher Community; Comparison to Properties in Prior Studies; Appendix B; Appendix C; Chapter 4 The Effect of Mothers' Educational Credentials on Children's Outcomes: Does Being a First-Generation or Continuin...; Background ; Cultural Capital and Parenting ApproachesEmbodied and Objectified Cultural Capital; Institutionalized Cultural Capital; First-Generation College Graduates and Social Mobility; The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage; Data, Sample, and Analyses; Measures; Dependent Variables; Independent Variables; School Involvement; Activities; Educational Expectations and Beliefs; Books at Home; Controls; Sample; Results; Discussion; Notes; References; Appendix; Chapter 5 Children's Highbrow Cultural Activities and Academic Achievement in Hong Kong; Review of Literature; Theoretical Framework ; Prior Research
• Sommario/riassunto: Contributions come from authors spread around the globe, illuminating how the efficacy and ideologies of schooling variably unfold in differing national and historical contexts. Written by sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and cultural critics, this journal offers lively and accessible empirical work to a broad audience.
• Titolo autorizzato: Family environments, school resources, and educational outcomes
• ISBN: 1-78441-627-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465318603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Research in sociology of education ; ; Volume 19.