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.

Downloads

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

Issue

Vol. 22 (2015)

Section

Book reviews

License

Copyright is retained by the first or sole author, who grants right of first publication to the Education Review. Readers are free to copy, display, distribute, and adapt this article, as long as the work is attributed to the author(s) and Education Review, the changes are identified, and the same license applies to the derivative work. 

All journal content from 1998-2020 and was published under an earlier Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0