A Useful Extension of Bourdieu's Conceptual Framework?: Emotional Capital as a Way of Understanding Mothers' Involvement in Their Children's Education?

By D. Reay. 2000

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Subfields: Education, Music, Sociology and Political Science

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Do parents know they matter? Engaging all parents in learning (2008, background): “Reay's ( 2000 ) work on parents' emotional capital demonstrates quite clearly the advantages that middle-class parents have in securing better educational provision and outcomes.”
The How, Whom, and Why of Parents’ Involvement in Children’s Academic Lives: More Is Not Always Better (2007, background): “Indeed, on the basis of her interviews with a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample of mothers of elementary school children, Reay (2000) described mothers as provid-”
Working class mothers and school life: exploring the role of emotional capital (2006, methodology): “The concept has since been used in a more systematic way by Diane Reay (2000, 2002) to theorize parental involvement in education.”
Mothers' emotional care work in education and its moral imperative (2007, background): “More recently, however, this discourse has been critiqued for its gender‐biased terminology and for its reductionist and over rationalist construction of the education support work that is done primarily by mothers (Smith, 1996 ; Reay, 2000 ).”
Learning to Labour with Feeling: Class, Gender and Emotion in Childcare Education and Training (2006, background): “Reay (2000) has also drawn on Bourdieu’s sociology in order to analyse feelings in the context of studying the (unpaid) emotional work that mothers from different social classes do to engage with their children’s education.”
Parenting in relation to children’s sports participation: generational changes and potential implications (2014, background): “Similarly, across three research projects on mothers’ emotional investment in children’s education, Reay ( 2000 , 2004a ) found that involvement in children’s schooling generated intense anxiety, especially among middle-class mothers who expressed fears that credential inflation and increased marke”
First-generation students: what we ask, what we know and what it means: an international review of the state of research (2013, background): “…of FGS have often supported their children by, for example, providing textbooks and computers, driving their children to distant schools, supporting them mentally and engaging with teachers if it appeared that they were not promoting their child to his or her ability (Gofen, 2009; Reay, 2000).”
Habitus and the psychosocial: Bourdieu with feelings (2015, neutral): “My ﬁ rst attempt was to sketch out the genesis of a conceptualisation of emotional capital (Reay, 2000, 2004a).”