The Politicization of Parenthood Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research Series Volume 5 Series Editor: ASHER BEN-ARIEH Paul Baerwald School of Social Work & Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Editorial Board: J. LAWRENCE ABER DAGMAR KUTSAR Ney York University, USA University of Tartu, Estonia JONATHAN BRADSHAW KEN LAND University of York, U.K. Duke University, Durham, USA FERRAN CASAS BONG JOO LEE University of Girona, Spain Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea ICK-JOONG CHUNG JAN MASON Duksung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea University of Western Sydney, Australia HOWARD DUBOWITZ KRISTIN A. MOORE University of Maryland Baltimore, USA Child Trends, Washington, USA IVAR FRONES BERNHARD NAUCK University of Oslo, Norway Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany FRANK FURSTENBERG USHA S. NAYAR University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Tata Institute, Mumbai, India USA WILLIAM O’HARE ROBBIE GILLIGAN Kids Counts project, Annie E. Casy Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Foundation, Baltimore, USA ROBERT M. GOERGE SHELLY PHIPPS University of Chicago, USA Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova IAN GOUGH Scotia, Canada University of Bath, U.K. JACKIE SANDERS AN-MAGRITT JENSEN Massey University, Palmerston North, Norwegian University of Science and New Zealand Technology, Trondheim, Norway GIOVANNI SGRITTA SHEILA B. KAMERMAN University of Rome, Italy Columbia University, Ney York, USA THOMAS S. WEISNER JILL E. KORBIN University of California, Los Angeles, USA Case Western Reserve University, HELMUT WINTESBERGER Cleveland, USA University of Vienna, Austria This new series focuses on the subject of measurements and indicators of children’s well being and their usage, within multiple domains and in diverse cultures. More specifi cally, the series seeks to present mea- sures and data resources, analysis of data, exploration of theoretical issues, and information about the status of children, as well as the implementation of this information in policy and practice. By doing so it aims to explore how child indicators can be used to improve the development and the well being of children. With an international perspective the series will provide a unique applied perspective, by bringing in a variety of analytical models, varied perspectives, and a variety of social policy regimes. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research will be unique and exclusive in the fi eld of measures and indicators of children’s lives and will be a source of high quality, policy impact and rigorous scientifi c papers. For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/8162 Martina Richter (cid:129) Sabine Andresen Editors The Politicization of Parenthood Shifting Private and Public Responsibilities in Education and Child Rearing Editors Martina Richter Sabine Andresen Institute of Social Work, Education Goethe University Frankfurt/Main and Sport Science (ISBS) IDeA - Center for Research on Individual University of Vechta Development and Adaptive Education Driverstrasse 22 of Children at Risk 49377 Vechta Robert-Mayer-Strasse 1 Germany 60054 Frankfurt/Main Germany ISSN 1879-5196 e-ISSN 1879-520X ISBN 978-94-007-2971-1 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2972-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2972-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012933791 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfi lming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifi cally for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 Sabine Andresen and Martina Richter Part I Families and the Welfare State: The Understanding of Responsibility Family Policy and the Politics of Parenting: From Function to Competence ................................................................................................. 13 Val Gillies Families, Professionals, and Responsibility .................................................. 27 Nadia Kutscher Nordic Politicization of Parenthood: Unfolding Hybridization? ................ 39 Anne Lise Ellingsæter Can a Crisis Become an Opportunity? Gender and Care in Contemporary Ireland ............................................................................... 55 Brid Featherstone Parent–School Relations in England and the USA: Partnership, Problematized ........................................................................... 69 Kristen D. Nawrotzki Family and Welfare State Change: Challenges for Education ................... 85 Andreas Lange The Redistribution of Responsibility Between State and Parents: Family in the Context of Post-Welfare-State Transformation .................... 101 Nina Oelkers v vi Contents Part II Child Rearing Between Family Care and Institutional Provisions Early Childhood Education and Social Inequality: Parental Models of a “Good” Childhood ...................................................... 113 Tanja Betz Child Well-Being in the UK: Children’s Views of Families ........................ 127 Colette McAuley The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes ............................ 139 Carol Vincent, Nicola Rollock, Stephen Ball, and David Gillborn Signifi cance of Family and School, Educational Standards, and Social Reproduction in Education ......................................................... 153 Jutta Ecarius Studying at Home: With Whom and in Which Way? Homework Practices and Confl icts in the Family ........................................ 165 Elke Wild and Sittipan Yotyodying “Having to Keep Silent”: A Capabilities Perspective on Growing Up and the “Education Process” in a Migration Family ............................. 181 Christine Hunner-Kreisel Part III Meeting Parents’ and Children’s Needs: Professionals in Schools Pushing Parents Away: The Role of District Bureaucracy in an Urban School.......................................................................................... 197 Erin McNamara Horvat Symbolic Constructions, Pedagogical Practices, and the Legitimation of All-Day Schooling from a Professional Perspective: Tendencies Towards Familialization in All-Day Schools ................................................. 213 Till-Sebastian Idel, Kerstin Rabenstein, and Sabine Reh Parents’ Perspectives on Services to Support Families in All-Day Schools ........................................................................................... 221 Nicole Börner Parental Involvement in All-Day Special Schools for Learning Disabilities ................................................................................. 235 Michael Urban, Kapriel Meser, and Rolf Werning Educational or Child-Rearing Partnerships: What Kind of Cooperation Is Needed at All-Day Secondary Schools? .......................... 249 Regina Soremski Contents vii School Attachment and Performance: The Impact of Participation in Extracurricular Activities at School ......................................................... 265 Natalie Fischer and Felix Brümmer Daily School Time, Workforce Participation, and Family Life: Time Spent in School as a Condition of Family Life ................................... 281 Ivo Züchner Ideas of Family and Concepts of Responsibility at All-Day Schools ........................................................................................... 299 Sabine Andresen, Lena Blomenkamp, Nicole Koch, Martina Richter, Anne-Dorothee Wolf, and Kathrin Wrobel Contributors Sabine Andresen , Research Interests: Family Research; Childhood and Youth Studies; Theory and History of Education; Progressive Education; Gender Studies IDeA - Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main , Robert-Mayer-Strasse 1, 60054 Frankfurt/Main, Germany Stephen Ball , Research Interests: Education Policy Analysis; Relationships Between Education and Education Policy and Social Class Institute of Education , University of London , UK Tanja Betz , Research Interests: Childhood Studies; Educational Research; Professionalization of Educators; Social Inequality Faculty of Educational Science , Schumpeter-Fellow, Faculty of Educational Science , Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main , Germany Lena Blomenkamp, Research Interests: All-Day-School; Childhood Education; Social Inequality Department of Social Work , Catholic University of Applied Science North Rhine-Westphalia , Cologne , Germany Nicole Börner, Research Interests: All-Day School; Family Research Alliance German Youth Institute/ Dortmund Technical University , Germany Felix Brümmer, Research Interests: Individual Effects of Extracurricular Activities; Coping With the Transition to Secondary School; Familial Conditions for Learning and Motivation German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) , Frankfurt/Main , Germany Jutta Ecarius , Research Interests: Childhood and Youth Studies, Family Research; Generation and Family Research; Qualitative Methods Faculty of Human Sciences , University of Cologne , Germany Anne Lise Ellingsæter , Research Interests: Changes in the Relationship of Welfare State; Families and Labor Markets; Family Policy; Family Policy and Ideational ix