Middle-class mothers' participation in tutoring for spoken English: a case of unlocking middle-class identity and privilege in contemporary India.
Sociological inquiries on parental involvement seldom consider the investments parents make in themselves to realise educational advantages in their children's schooling. This gap hides the processes underlying class-making and class-produced privileges. To address this gap, this article investigate...
| Published in: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 44; no. 5; pp. 739 - 754 |
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Oct2023
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