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Concerted Cultivation and Academic Achievement. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Jan 2009, Pages: 64
Anne Lareau (2003) argues that parents’ child-rearing
practices
have a profound effect on academic and later
occupational success
for children, even holding constant such important
factors as
gender, race and school effects. She says that
social class impacts
these child-rearing practices and that middle-class
families use a
specific type of practice called concerted
cultivation. Concerted
cultivation involves parents organizing children’s
daily activities,
using reasoning skills in talking with children, and
teaching them
how to interact with the institutions around them.
Using the
National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) of 1988,
the current
study tests the theoretical validity of concerted
cultivation. The
results show that concerted cultivation significantly
predicts both
student GPA and standardized test scores. Amongst
the elements of
concerted cultivation, parent and student habitus, in
the form of
expectations, play the largest roles. This book
would be an
important read for educators or academics studying
the ways that
social class impacts the life chances of youths in
America's schools.
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