Middle-Class Mothers' Participation in Tutoring for Spoken English: A Case of Unlocking Middle-Class Identity and Privilege in Contemporary India

Autor/in	Gupta, Achala
Titel	Middle-Class Mothers' Participation in Tutoring for Spoken English: A Case of Unlocking Middle-Class Identity and Privilege in Contemporary India
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 44 (2023) 5, S.739-753 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gupta, Achala)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2022.2131738
Schlagwörter	Middle Class; Mothers; Parent Participation; Tutoring; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Parent School Relationship; Coaching (Performance); Private Education; Advantaged; Parents as Teachers; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Mother; Mutter; Elternmitwirkung; Förderkonzept; Nachhilfeunterricht; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Privatunterricht; Indien
Abstract	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 investigates middle-class mothers' participation in tutoring and coaching for spoken English in Dehradun, India, focusing on their reasons for soliciting such paid tutoring support. It shows that mothers subscribe to these services to facilitate home-teaching, productive communication with their children, and effective home-school partnerships. Mothers' subscription to private tuition emerges in this context as a source of cultural capital that parents use to unlock their middle-class identity and privilege in the educational landscape. The article argues that English private tutoring is a case of a capital exchange -- economic for cultural and social forms of capital -- which parents may use to accumulate key resources and produce, maintain, and intergenerationally sustain their middle-classness. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01