Parent–practitioner engagement in early education and the threat of negative thinking about the poor across England and the USA

Lumsden, E., Simpson, D., Mazzocco, P., Loughran, S., Winterbottom, C. and McDowall Clark, R. (2019) Parent–practitioner engagement in early education and the threat of negative thinking about the poor across England and the USA. Research in Education. 109(1), pp. 20-36. 0034-5237.

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Abstract:	Parent-practitioner engagement in the early years has become a key policy in remediating the negative effects of poverty upon children’s early educational outcomes. Although this approach is shared across several developed countries there has been limited attention upon how practitioners think about poverty and their engagement with parents in poverty. Our mixed methods study in England and the USA provides rare evidence addressing these issues. Among our practitioners in both countries ‘parent blame’ for poverty featured to some extent in the accounts of a majority of practitioners. We also found a relationship between the extent to which our practitioners felt individual parents are culpable for poverty and their reporting of more negative engagement with parents - particularly in England. We claim this is worthy of further study as a potential threat to the ‘child-parent-practitioner triangle’ and to remediation of poverty’s effects within early educational contexts.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Family, school, and community, Social justice, Inequality, Marginalisation, Pedagogy, Policy
Creators:	Lumsden, Eunice, Simpson, Donald, Mazzocco, Philip, Loughran, Sandra, Winterbottom, Christian and McDowall Clark, Rory
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > Early Years
Date:	14 November 2019
Date Type:	Acceptance
Page Range:	pp. 20-36
Journal or Publication Title:	Research in Education
Volume:	109
Number:	1
Number of Pages:	17
Language:	English
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523719895038
ISSN:	0034-5237
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/public...
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12636

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