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    Helping with homework? Homework as a site of tension for parents and teenagers

    Solomon, Y ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2731-8380, Warin, J and Lewis, C (2002) Helping with homework? Homework as a site of tension for parents and teenagers. British Educational Research Journal, 28 (4). pp. 603-622. ISSN 0141-1926

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    Abstract

    The setting of homework is strongly encouraged by the Department for Education and Employment on the assumption that support from parents, once gained, is unproblematic and useful. However, a number of researchers have observed the possibility of a negative impact of homework on families. This article presents interview data from families with teenagers, in which homework was described as a significant site of parent-teenager tensions. For many parents, homework was invested with the opportunity for reparation for their own scholastic failures or lost opportunities. Others felt that they lacked the competence to help and were disenfranchised by homework demands. Parents' concerns about their children's futures create a climate of pressure to succeed as they support a homework agenda that is not necessarily their own and which they have little power to influence.

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2010 13:54
    Publisher: Wiley
    Additional Information: This is an electronic version of an article published in British educational research journal, 2002, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 603-622. British educational research journal is available online at informaworldTM at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713931011
    Divisions: Faculties > Health and Education
    Subject terms: Social Sciences, Education & Educational Research, INVOLVEMENT, SCHOOL, FAMILY, EDUCATION, 13 Education, Education
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/91078
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0141192022000005850a
    ISSN 0141-1926

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