Review of The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children’s Education

Authors

  • Susan Miller Doctoral Student School of Education Math Curriculum and Instruction University of Colorado - Boulder

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v22.1855

Author Biography

Susan Miller, Doctoral Student School of Education Math Curriculum and Instruction University of Colorado - Boulder

Susan Miller left a career in engineering to teach math to middle school students for eight years before deciding to currently pursue a doctoral degree in the School of Education, at the University of Colorado Boulder.  Specializing in math curriculum and instruction, her research interests include math teacher education and the use of computational thinking to support mathematizing.  She also co-parents four children from 15 to 22 years old.

References

Bourdieu, P. (1989). Social space and symbolic power. Sociological Theory, 7(1), 14–25. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/202060

Lareau, A. (2011). Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Second Edi.). University of California Press.

Robinson, K., & Harris, A. L. (2014). The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement With Children’s Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Stanton-Salazar, R. D. (2001). Manufacturing Hope and Despair: The School and Kin Support Networks of US-Mexican Youth. Teachers College Press.

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Published

2015-06-10

How to Cite

Miller, S. (2015). Review of The Broken Compass: Parental Involvement with Children’s Education. Education Review, 22. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v22.1855

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