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  • Discourses of the Good Parent in Attributing School Success

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    Author(s)
    Thomas, Sue
    Keogh, Jayne
    Hay, Steve
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hay, Stephen J.
    Thomas, Sue A.
    Keogh, Jayne E.
    Year published
    2015
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    Recent education policy places a heavy emphasis on parents in relation to students' success at school. This paper explores how parents and teachers account for school success. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA), it interrogates data collected in different interview situations across sites over a period of twenty years. The analysis shows how parents and teachers use talk as moral work to conversationally constitute particular agreed versions of the category "parent". This category is interactively assembled through the use of category-bound attributes that construct deficit discourses of parents that explain ...
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    Recent education policy places a heavy emphasis on parents in relation to students' success at school. This paper explores how parents and teachers account for school success. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA), it interrogates data collected in different interview situations across sites over a period of twenty years. The analysis shows how parents and teachers use talk as moral work to conversationally constitute particular agreed versions of the category "parent". This category is interactively assembled through the use of category-bound attributes that construct deficit discourses of parents that explain student achievement. The analysis demonstrates that parents are complicit with teachers in producing versions of being a good parent wherein they are held responsible for their children's school success and that minimises the responsibility of the school. These findings raise questions both about who is responsible for schooling and about current contradictory policy emphases on parent and teacher responsibility for school success.
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    Journal Title
    Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
    Volume
    36
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2014.901489
    Copyright Statement
    © 2015 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education on 25 Apr 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2014.901489
    Subject
    Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
    Education
    Studies in Human Society
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/88575
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