Stories, Facts, and Possibilities: Bridging the Home and School Worlds for Nonmainstream Students

2010 ◽  
pp. 136-158
Author(s):  
Diane Lapp
Keyword(s):  
Home And School

scholarly journals ‘What about me?’ Stories of the educational experiences of care-experienced children and young people in a Scottish local authority

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-190
Author(s):  
Daniela Mercieca ◽  
Duncan P Mercieca ◽  
Leisa Randall
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Young People ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Home And School

This qualitative study explores the educational experiences of looked after children and young people in one Scottish local authority. The preoccupations of government are academic achievement and school attendance, but these are not the prime concerns of the children, carers and professionals involved. Moreover, they can be both enhanced and restricted by the background characteristics and care situations of the young people and the responses of schools to their needs and behaviour. Five influential factors emerged from interviews and focus groups with professionals, carers and young people: behaviour; school attendance; carers as educators; friendships; and communication between home and school. Each of them is discussed with extended quotations that convey the voices of participants.

Rethinking Institutional Habitus in Education: A Relational Approach for Studying Its Sources and Impacts

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 003803852096656
Author(s):  
Çetin Çelik
Keyword(s):  
Educational Status ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Educational Trajectories ◽  
Turkish Immigrant ◽  
Educational Engagement ◽  
Academic Practices ◽  
Relational Framework ◽  
Institutional Habitus ◽  
Home And School ◽  
Educational Field

Institutional habitus is a useful concept for analysing how schools adopt certain dispositions and influence students’ educational trajectories. The literature, however, reduces its source to collective social class mediated by an institution and only employs it to explain the reproduction of inequalities. Instead, I offer a relational framework that ties the concepts of institutional habitus, field and capital, and investigate how a secondary school improves the educational engagement of working-class, second-generation Turkish immigrant youth in Germany. The findings reveal that the school’s institutional habitus combines the communal values of the immigrant community and the middle-class academic practices; the former narrows the gap between home and school, and the latter modifies the classed feelings of students. The relational framework discloses that schools’ educational status in the educational field constitutes the source of institutional habitus, and that the institutional habitus can also explain the reduction of inequalities by schools.

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