Face à l’École : les oscillations de mères de familles populaires

In poor areas, where public policies are implemented in the education field, many projects aim at bringing parents closer to schools. In the schools studied in this ethnographic study, mothers are usually the ones who respond to these requests, by participating in school events and helping with home...

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Main Author: Chloé Riban
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Language:fra
Published: Nantes Université 2019-11-01
Series:Recherches en Éducation
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ree/722
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description In poor areas, where public policies are implemented in the education field, many projects aim at bringing parents closer to schools. In the schools studied in this ethnographic study, mothers are usually the ones who respond to these requests, by participating in school events and helping with homeworks. However, their busy everyday life and often difficult personnal situations sometimes prevent them from fully participating in school events and helping their children. If they trust the school, as a given, we observe that silent waverings define the relationships between mothers and teachers : their involvement sometimes hides muted tensions. Meeting the teachers is indeed a risk and has an emotionnal cost, which precipitates the use of various tactics. The difficulties their children may face (for learning or behavior), sometimes provoke attemps from the school to normalize their maternal attitudes, which may call into question the way these mothers raise their children at home. Yet, their maternal role is central to their identity, stemming from a naturalized vision of childcare. Their waverings in the relationship and the minimization of the disagrements appear then as a usefull behavior, intended to preserve a sort of balance, in which they are able to preserve their identities as mothers.
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spelling doaj-art-4d51ee4c2e284789895b9b7251c9e2922025-01-10T14:04:59ZfraNantes UniversitéRecherches en Éducation1954-30772019-11-013810.4000/ree.722Face à l’École : les oscillations de mères de familles populairesChloé RibanIn poor areas, where public policies are implemented in the education field, many projects aim at bringing parents closer to schools. In the schools studied in this ethnographic study, mothers are usually the ones who respond to these requests, by participating in school events and helping with homeworks. However, their busy everyday life and often difficult personnal situations sometimes prevent them from fully participating in school events and helping their children. If they trust the school, as a given, we observe that silent waverings define the relationships between mothers and teachers : their involvement sometimes hides muted tensions. Meeting the teachers is indeed a risk and has an emotionnal cost, which precipitates the use of various tactics. The difficulties their children may face (for learning or behavior), sometimes provoke attemps from the school to normalize their maternal attitudes, which may call into question the way these mothers raise their children at home. Yet, their maternal role is central to their identity, stemming from a naturalized vision of childcare. Their waverings in the relationship and the minimization of the disagrements appear then as a usefull behavior, intended to preserve a sort of balance, in which they are able to preserve their identities as mothers.https://journals.openedition.org/ree/722learning difficulties and students in difficultypriority educationfamily and educationeducational inequalities
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Face à l’École : les oscillations de mères de familles populaires
Recherches en Éducation
learning difficulties and students in difficulty
priority education
family and education
educational inequalities
title Face à l’École : les oscillations de mères de familles populaires
title_full Face à l’École : les oscillations de mères de familles populaires
title_fullStr Face à l’École : les oscillations de mères de familles populaires
title_full_unstemmed Face à l’École : les oscillations de mères de familles populaires
title_short Face à l’École : les oscillations de mères de familles populaires
title_sort face a l ecole les oscillations de meres de familles populaires
topic learning difficulties and students in difficulty
priority education
family and education
educational inequalities
url https://journals.openedition.org/ree/722
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